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Quote by Raymond Chandler
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. – Raymond Chandler

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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. – Raymond Chandler

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you. – Oscar Wilde

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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. – Pablo Picasso

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. – Erica Jong

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The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need. – Mike Fitzpatrick

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The job cant be finished only improved to please the customer. – W. Edwards Deming

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The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination. – Thomas Hill

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