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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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Advice, Like Yourself

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Writing, Typewriters

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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

  Writing, Mean, Pushing

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Character, Guy

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• 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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Advice, Progress

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

  Raymond Chandler

  Doors, Enough, Desks

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• She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fawns, Might, Ifs

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Lady in the Lake: The Little Sister ; The Long Goodbye ; Playback”, Everyman's Library

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• 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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Husband, Party, Fighting

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “Trouble Is My Business: A Novel”, p.215, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Raymond Chandler

  Splits, Grammar, Damn

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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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Perfect, Mind, Television

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

  Raymond Chandler

  Girl, Sin, Smooth

  Raymond Chandler (1994). “Farewell, my lovely”, Thorndike Pr

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• I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

  Raymond Chandler

  Gun, Needs, Said

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.88, Vintage

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• When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Gun, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

  Raymond Chandler

  Smile, Laughter, Laughing

  Farewell, My Lovely ch. 18 (1940)

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• In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Quality, Redemption

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.23, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• 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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Years, Common Sense, Fifty

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• Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

  Raymond Chandler

  Hero, Mean, Men

  "The Simple Art of Murder," Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944

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• To say goodbye is to die a little.

  Raymond Chandler

  Goodbye, Littles, Chaos

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.336, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hangover, Alcohol, Big Sleep

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.113, Vintage

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• He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Too Much, Big Sleep

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.55, Modern Library

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• Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

  Raymond Chandler

  Inspiration, Strange, Strange Things

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.36, Vintage

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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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Goodbye, Phrases, Littles

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.336, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Raymond Chandler

  Nice, Dating, Romance

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• 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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Police, Problem

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.124, Vintage

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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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Glasses, Talking, People

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.83, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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