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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Birthname

AKA Raymond Chandler

Birthday July 23, 1888

Death March 26, 1959

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Educated At Dulwich College

Nationality American, 1956â1959)British, United States Of America

Occupations Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

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I’m all done with hating you. It’s all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don’t hate them very long.

— Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

Hate Human Feelings emotions Moving On Moving Forward forgiveness

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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.

— Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Quote

kindness Survival Bravery Courage

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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

goodbye Sadness Pain

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There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart.

— Raymond Chandler, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance

Truth Enlightenment Relief Comfort Honesty

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I was hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

Metaphor self Emptiness

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To say goodbye is to die a little.

— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

goodbye Death Sadness Pain Leaving

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I didn't say anything. I was way past the age when it's fun to swear at people you can't hurt.

— Philip Marlowe, Trouble Is My Business

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'I get so tired of it.'

'Tired of what?'

'Hard little men in hard little offices talking hard little words that don't mean a goddamn thing.'

— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

strategy Life Being Tough

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Take the brass knuckles off before you start. If you're big enough you don't need them and if you need them you're not big enough to push me around.

— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

strategy Life Being Tough

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Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gun in the hand means the world by the tail.

— Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep

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I never do things by halves.

— Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep

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You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

insults talking shut up

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When they use a .22 it means they don't make mistakes.

— Philip Marlowe, Trouble Is My Business

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It's a question of a little money against a lot of annoyance.

— Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep

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Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have your breaks relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarter back who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flack on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

— Philip Marlowe, Playback

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Nick is delicate. Like a flower. Like a chubby, damaged flower who hates himself.

— Schmidt (Max Greenfield), New Girl, Season 1: Naked

Delicate Simile Examples Flower chubby damaged Hate

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A man hates his enemy because he hates his own hate.

— Elie Wiesel, Dawn

Hate humanity Enemy Elie Wiesel

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I have a strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy - it’s not giving a damn.

— Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving and Learning

Love Apathy Hate

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There is more love and acceptance in this world than hate & exclusion. Don’t let the vocal bigots of this world make you question your value

— Matthew Santoro, via twitter.com

Inclusion Hate Prejudice Judgement Value Love Acceptance

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No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

Love Hate broken

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Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

— Euripides, Medea (Dover Thrift Editions)

Love strength Powerful force Hate Anger

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We look like we hate each other.

— Maci Bookout, Teen Mom, Season 1: A Little Help

Hate Photos upset Lost Love tension

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Hey, I'm with you. I hate the way those whiny sick people are always nagging you for things. 'I want a magazine!' 'I want a kidney!'

— Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer), Frasier, Season 2: The Botched Language of the Cranes

Hate Sick Whiny nagging Magazine kidney

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I never stopped loving you. Not even for a second. Even when I hated you.

— Charles Sheehan-Miles, Just Remember to Breathe

Loving Someone Hate

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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

— Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Hate enemies Anxiety strength

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