Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. - Raymond Chandler

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Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep · July 12, 1988 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

detective noir

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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.

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Birth Name: Raymond Thornton Chandler

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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

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