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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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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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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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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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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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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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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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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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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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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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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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