A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
Raymond Chandler Quotes
By the way, do you ever read the Bible ? I suppose not very often, but I had occasion to the other night and believe me it is a lesson in how not to write for the movies. The worst kind of overwriting. Whole chapters that could have been said in one paragraph. And the dialogue!
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| Birth: | 23rd July, 1888 |
| Death: | 26th March, 1959 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist, Screenwriter |
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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression.
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