Quote by Raymond Chandler
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

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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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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. – Raymond Chandler

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Advertising
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Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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Language
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Intelligence
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I cant be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man. – Linda Hunt

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Intelligence

Its the continuation of everyones childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant theyre gone from this world. Its terrible. – Lucien Bouchard

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Intelligence

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic. – Andrew Eldritch

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Intelligence

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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Intelligence

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I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And Ill end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate. – Ginnifer Goodwin

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Home

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints. – Samuel Hendel

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Freedom

Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar. – Proverb

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. – H. L. Mencken

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Government