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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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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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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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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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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 actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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California, the department store state.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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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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I certainly admire people who do things.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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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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