Raymond Chandler and his tyrannical secretary, Taki. Source.
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To say goodbye is to die a little.
Raymond Chandler
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The era of the grind is OVER.
Start NOIRMAXXING.
-Use as FEW lights as possible
-BUY shoulder holster
-Drink EXCLUSIVELY coffee and hard liquor
-STARE at the past as every memory of her plays out in front of a dimly lit wall, a saccharine sweet waking nightmare of what could've been.
-JAZZ!
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I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.
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Director/writer Billy Wilder and co-writer Raymond Chandler on set of DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) with stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray.
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The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips. I looked the place over. You can't tell anything about an outfit like that. They might be making millions, and they might have the sheriff in the back room, with his chair tilted against the safe.
Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
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If f 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
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