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“The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law." ( Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel , 1949)” quote by Raymond Chandler — Download Open image

““The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law." ( Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel , 1949)””

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Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss…

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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

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Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a…

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“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that…

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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.

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

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Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

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“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and…

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

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“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just wanted to do wing-overs and sing the prologue to Pagliacci. I had the fly swatter poised in midair and I was all set. There was a patch of bright sunlight on the corner of the desk…

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“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They…

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Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

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