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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
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Mysteries
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Mystery
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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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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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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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