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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler
American Writer
Born: Jul 23, 1888
Died: Mar 26, 1959
About Any Good Had Man You
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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. Raymond Chandler
Love You Girl Kiss First Clothes Alcohol Intimate Magic Take Like First Kiss Off After Routine Second Third
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 more than one way to conquer a country. Raymond Chandler
Mind Country Way Fraudulent Constant Constant Flow Pretty One-Way More Trivial Obvious Advertising Caused Than Human Human Mind Conquer Thing Flow
The streets were dark with something more than night. Raymond Chandler
Dark Something More Were Than Streets Night
It is not a fragrant world. Raymond Chandler
World Society Fragrant
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 and natural movement. Raymond Chandler
Natural Challenge Half Say Out Take Still Effect Movement Leisure Screenwriting Little Then Much Preserve
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. Raymond Chandler
Class Made Seen Something Feet Like Looked She Lot Up Away
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday. Raymond Chandler
God Sunday Made Guess Boston Wet
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Raymond Chandler
Law Half Inevitable Once Must Solution Seem Mystery Revealed Least Novels Published Violate
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. Raymond Chandler
Reading Rather Print Than Process Turned Flood
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 as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. Raymond Chandler
You Man Creative Ego Picture Own Nothing Every Meet Kind Objectively Seems Only Sees Could Neutral Never He Almost Him Because Always Foreground His Artist Creative Artist Ground
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. Raymond Chandler
You Justice Law Press Exactly Imperfect Also Answer Up Very Intended May Show Lucky Mechanism Ever Right Buttons
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. Raymond Chandler
Though Shall Dead Woe Were Behave While Little Us Little While Therefore Let Us
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. Raymond Chandler
Society Considerable Our Television Facet More Segment Never Buck Had Any Just Just One Standard Soft
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler
You Intelligence Find Outside Advertising Advertising Agency Chess Human Elaborate Agency Human Intelligence Waste
I certainly admire people who do things. Raymond Chandler
People Admire Certainly Who Things
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. Raymond Chandler
Writing Emotions Power Half Think Thinking Destroys Critical Oblivion Ideas Most Terms Short Short Cut Sensations Dishonest Anyway Cut

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