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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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 always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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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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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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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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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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