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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.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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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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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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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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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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