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«The more you reason the less you create»
«When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.»
«She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.»
«When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Alcohol
| Keywords:
alcohol, intimate, routine, The First Kiss, The Third
«The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
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«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.»
«I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apartments, a great deal, blondes, great deal, particularly, research, researched, researches, researching, tall, The Apartment, The Apartments
«Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.»
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