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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

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Raymond Chandler's Popular Quotes

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

- Raymond Chandler

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.

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There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

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If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

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