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#1

“If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few desks away.”
― Denise Mina, Still Midnight

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#2

“Don't go on holiday to Blackpool, it's fucking horrible there.”
― Denise Mina, Field of Blood

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#3

“It was Lord of the Flies without table manners.”
― Denise Mina, The Dead Hour

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#4

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#5

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#6

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#8

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#9

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#10

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
― Raymond Chandler

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#11

“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.”
― Raymond Chandler, The High Window

tags: hard-boiled

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#12

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: poetic-prose

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#13

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: detective, noir

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#14

“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

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#15

“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: alcoholism, drinking

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#16

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

tags: blonde, sex-appeal

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#17

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#18

“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: on-writing, revision, writing

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#19

“I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: detectives, sharp

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#20

“You're broke, eh?"
I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: being-poor, money, poverty

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#21

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#22

“She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: fluttering-eyelashes, seduction

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#23

“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: novels, writing

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#24

“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: writing

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#25

“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: death, humour

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#26

“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

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#27

“Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: fog, ocean, surf, thought

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#28

“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.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#29

“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
― Raymond Chandler, Pearls are a Nuisance

tags: hyperbole, imagination

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#30

“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#31

“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister

tags: dicks

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