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They say money don't stink," he said. "I sometimes wonder. (Raymond Chandler)
She opened her mouth like a firebucket and laughed. That terminated my interest in her. I couldn't hear the laugh but the hole in her face when she unzippered her teeth was all I needed. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard. View quote
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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. View quote
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The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. View quote
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I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling. View quote
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long. View quote
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Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day. View quote
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. View quote
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. (Raymond Chandler)
I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights. View quote
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. View quote
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Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights. View quote
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She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens. View quote
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Okay, thees Hench no good, but poor guy, drunk, no job. Pay no rent, but I got lotsa money. So I say, Look, Hench, you make the confess. You sick man. Two three weeks sick. You go into court. I have a lawyer for you. You say to hell with the confess. I was drunk. The damn coppers are stuck. The judge he turn you loose and you come back to me and I take care of you. Okay? So Hench say okay, make the confess. That's all.' I said: 'And after two or three weeks the bad brother is a long way from here and the trail is cold and the cops will likely just write the Phillips killing off as unsolved. Is that it? View quote
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You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you. View quote
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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? 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. View quote
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There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. View quote
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I stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn't seem to be really trying. View quote
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. (Raymond Chandler)
Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get... View quote
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Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines. View quote
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The mystery story is a kind of writing that need not dwell in the shadow of the past and owes little if any allegiance to the cult of the classics. It is a good deal more than unlikely that any writer now living will produce a better historical novel than Henry Esmond, a better tale of children than The Golden Age, a sharper social vignette than Madame Bovary, a more graceful and elegant evocation than The Spoils of Poynton, a wider and richer canvas than War and Peace or The Brothers Karamazov. View quote
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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. View quote
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