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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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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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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
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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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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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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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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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