Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tra… - Raymond Chandler

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Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

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Raymond Thornton Chandler (23 July 1888 – 26 March 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter who specialized in the crime fiction genre.

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The tragedy of life, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

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