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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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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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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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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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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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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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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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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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