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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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Nothing
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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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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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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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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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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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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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A really good detective never gets married.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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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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