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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
A really good detective never gets married.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.... (more Raymond Chandler quotes)
One murder in his novels that even Chandler himself couldn't explain was that of the chauffeur in The Big Sleep.
In 1941, Chandler attended his first and only Academy Awards ceremony.
Chandler was friends with Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.
Chandler's style of writing was inspired by Dashiell Hammett.
Chandler at... (more Raymond Chandler trivia)
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