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-->-- '''Creator/RaymondChandler''', [[http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html "The Simple Art of Murder"]]
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-->-- '''Creator/RaymondChandler''', [[http://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200806081521/http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html "The Simple Art of Murder"]]
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->''Chandler wrote the man he wanted to be -- gallant and suffused with a lively satirist's wit. Hammett wrote the man he feared he might be -- tenuous and skeptical in all human dealings, corruptible and addicted to violent intrigue. He stayed on the job. The job defined him.''
-->-- '''James Ellroy''', from his Introduction in the Everyman's Library edition of ''The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories''
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-->-- '''Creator/RaymondChandler''', [[http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html "The Simple Art of Murder"]]
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-->-- '''Creator/RaymondChandler''', [[http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html "The Simple Art of Murder"]]Murder"]]
->''The chief difference between the exceptionally knotty problem facing the detective of fiction and that facing the real detective is that in the former there is usually a paucity of clues, and in the latter altogether too many.''
-->-- '''Dashiell Hammett'''
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->''The chief difference between the exceptionally knotty problem facing the detective of fiction and that facing the real detective is that in the former there is usually a paucity of clues, and in the latter altogether too many.''
-->-- '''Dashiell Hammett'''
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->''Hammett took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley ... . He wrote at first (and almost to the end) for people with a sharp, aggressive attitude to life. They were not afraid of the seamy side of things; they lived there. Violence did not dismay them; it was right down their street.''
-->-- '''Creator/RaymondChandler''', [[http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html "The Simple Art of Murder"]]
-->-- '''Creator/RaymondChandler''', [[http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html "The Simple Art of Murder"]]
