Raymond Chandler ✓

(1888–1959) novelist United States

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[Wikidata] American novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959)... | [Wikipedia] Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black

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• James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in… Billygoat
• When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split. Damn
• A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice  and nothing else. Gimlet
• The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him… Artist
• 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… Challenge
• 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… Advertisement
• I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more. Always Find
• If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you. Believe
• The streets were dark with something more then night. Dark
• The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated. Dated
• If you liked a book, don't meet the author Author
• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose… Advertising
• There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough.… Admit
• 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… Asks
• An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. Art
• The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has. Fellow
• Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft… Brutalization
• The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you… Agent
• Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too… Admit
• Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of… Action
• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style,… Any
• Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day… All
• The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to… Bother
• Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it Courage
• You can't have everything, even in California California

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