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Raymond Chandler

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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 needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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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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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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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.
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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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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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