If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.Raymond Chandler
They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
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A city with no more personality than a paper cup.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.
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