Quote by Raymond Chandler
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can fin

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. – Raymond Chandler

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power
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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler

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Hollywood
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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 girls clothes off. – Raymond Chandler

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Love
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Intelligence

Im much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet. – Michael Scheuer

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Intelligence

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. – Socrates

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Intelligence

People are smarter than you might think. – John Astin

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Intelligence

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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Books

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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Dreams

Cinema is a matter of whats in the frame and whats out. – Martin Scorsese

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movies

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. – Luther Burbank

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Thinking