He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

—Raymond Chandler

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Portrait of Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in...

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She was everything you say and more. She was the best of my heart for thirty years. She was the music heard faintly at the edge of sound.

—Raymond Chandler

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

—Raymond Chandler

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

—Raymond Chandler

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The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

—Raymond Chandler

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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

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If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.

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God is hiding in the world and our task is to let the divine emerge from our deeds.

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I'm not trying to hide my past. I've learned a lot from it. It's made me who I am today, and I'm proud of who I've become.

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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

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