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• The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

  Raymond Chandler

  Powerful, Adventure, Self

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.117, Univ of California Press

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• 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. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.

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  Fun, Real, Wife

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

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  Law, Lawyer, Kind

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.118, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Ifs

  "The Long Goodbye: A Novel".

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• LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

  Raymond Chandler

  Heart, Paper, Cups

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• Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

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  Couple, Together, Littles

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.303, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

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  Men, Looks, Speech

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.20, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

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  Gun, Men, Plot

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

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  Nice, Dating, Romance

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• I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

  Raymond Chandler

  Honesty, Crazy, Believe

  1957 Letter to Edgar Carter, 3 Jun.

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• It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

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  Silly, Hair, Voice

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.222, Modern Library

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• I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

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  Onions, Splits, Pearls

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• 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 intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. 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 a mouthful of popcorn.

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  Real, Clothes, Perfect

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

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  World, Dull, May

  1944 'The Simple Art of Murder'. In Atlantic Monthly, Dec.

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• Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.

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  Mean, Tall

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• 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 a mouthful of popcorn.

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  Real, Perfect, Trying

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.

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  People, Needs, Agents

  1952 'Ten Per Cent of Your Life', in Atlantic Monthly, Feb.

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• Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.

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  Big Sleep, Shakes

  "The Big Sleep and Other Novels".

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• They write them long because they can't write them short.

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  Book, Writing, Long

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• But nothing seems to do any good.

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  Seems

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.320, Modern Library

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• Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

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  Clever, Men, Fool

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.

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  House, Feelings, Aprons

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The High Window: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• 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.

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  Moving, Knights, Games

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.182, Modern Library

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• Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

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  Dirty, Dollars, Sides

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.352, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

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  Money, Men, May

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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