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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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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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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 sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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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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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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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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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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