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Raymond Chandler

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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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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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 quote

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 quote

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Raymond Chandler quote

The streets were dark with something more than night.
Raymond Chandler quote

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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Biography

Lived 1888 - 1959, American writer of detective fiction



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Raymond Chandler Keywords

Detective, Fiction, Writer, American
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