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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off. – Raymond Chandler

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[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

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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

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Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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