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Raymond Chandler Quotes

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American Writer July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959

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Raymond Chandler quote: "Most people go through life using up half their energy trying..."
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had Raymond Chandler
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
James Cain – faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naf, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way. Nothing hard and clean and cold and ventilated. A brothel with a smell of cheap scent in the front parlor and a bucket of slops at the back door.... Raymond Chandler
Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler quote: "I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I..."
I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long. Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler quote: "I certainly admire people who do things."
I certainly admire people who do things. Raymond Chandler

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