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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Entertainment
Pleasure
Reading

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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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