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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
Pleasure
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Entertainment

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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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