'He used to wear a little blond moustache but Mother made him cut it off. She said -'\n'Don't tell me. The minister needed it to stuff a cushion>' - Raymond Chandler

Engraved portrait of Raymond Chandler, facing left

'He used to wear a little blond moustache but Mother made him cut it off. She said -'\n'Don't tell me. The minister needed it to stuff a cushion>'

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About Raymond Chandler

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

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Photographer uncredited. Published by Alfred A. Knopf. (Public domain / CC0)

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Birth Name: Raymond Thornton Chandler

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He had a battered face that looked as if it had been hit by everything but the bucket of a dragline. It was scarred, flattened, thickened, checkered, and welted. It was a face that had nothing to fear. Everything had been done to it that anybody could think of.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

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