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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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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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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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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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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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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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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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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