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Real Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense…
- The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be…
- A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
- 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…
- Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself…
- A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the…
- The challenge is to write about real things magically.
- There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that.…
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