23 July: Raymond Chandler Quotes

On this date in 1888 Raymond Chandler, US author of crime stories, was born. 10 quotes from him:

1. There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
2. The more you reason the less you create.
3. 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.
4. If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.
5. To say goodbye is to die a little.
6. There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.
7. The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
8. The tragedy of life is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean.
9. I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
10. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

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