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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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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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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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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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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 certainly admire people who do things.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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