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California, the department sto...

California, the department store state.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

It was a blonde. A blonde to m...

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

A city with all the personalit...

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

The private detective of ficti...

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.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

It is wrong to be harsh with t...

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

To say goodbye is to die a lit...

To say goodbye is to die a little.

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I merely say that all reading ...

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

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Technique alone is never enoug...

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

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As honest as you can expect a ...

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.

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The most durable thing in writ...

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

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That's one thing I like about ...

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.

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Nice: meaning I'm going to be ...

Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

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Could she *be* anymore out of ...

Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

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When the plot flags, bring in ...

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

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I like bars just after they op...

I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

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Love interest nearly always we...

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.

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I have made three rules of wri...

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

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A writer who is afraid to over...

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

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There are no vital and signifi...

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

All language begins with speec...

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....