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Most people go through life u...

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

I said something which gave y...

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

He snorted and hit me in the ...

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

Don't ever write anything you...

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

There was a desert wind blowi...

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

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I like smooth shiny girls, ha...

I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

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It seemed like a nice neighbo...

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

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I'm an occasional drinker, th...

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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There is no trap so deadly as...

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

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The French have a phrase for ...

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

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There is no bad whiskey. Ther...

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

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Tall, aren't you?" she said. ...

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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The best way to find out if y...

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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The most durable thing in wri...

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

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I regard psychiatry as fifty ...

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

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When I split an infinitive, G...

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

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It was about eleven o'clock i...

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

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There was a sad fellow over o...

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

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Any man who can write a page ...

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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Good critical writing is meas...

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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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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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....