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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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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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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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California, the department store state.
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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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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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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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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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