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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
Raymond Chandler

Born: July 23, 1888
Died: March 26, 1959 (aged 70)
Bio: Raymond Thornton Chandler was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
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