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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

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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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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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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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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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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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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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