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On the way downtown I stopped at a bar and had a couple of double Scotches. They didn't do me any good. All they did was make me think of Silver-Wig, and I never saw her again. (Raymond Chandler)
He used to wear a little blond moustache but Mother made him cut it off. She said -' 'Don't tell me. The minister needed it to stuff a cushion. View quote
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon. View quote
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back. View quote
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As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style. View quote
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I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin. View quote
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I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. View quote
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To say goodbye is to die a little. (Raymond Chandler)
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. View quote
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Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. View quote
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. View quote
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The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn. View quote
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. View quote
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Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. View quote
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others. View quote
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He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. View quote
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder. View quote
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A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. (Raymond Chandler)
She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight. View quote
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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. View quote
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. View quote
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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. View quote
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