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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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