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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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California, the department store state.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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