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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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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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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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But nothing seems to do any good.
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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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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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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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