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"The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment."
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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addi
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"The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law."
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"They say money dont stink," he said. "I sometimes wonder."
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"Tsk, tsk," I said, not moving at all. "Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. Youre the second guy Ive met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail."
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"He used to wear a little blond moustache but Mother made him cut it off. She said - Dont tell me. The minister needed it to stuff a cushion."
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"A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins."
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