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Quote by Raymond Chandler
Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang t

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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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. – Raymond Chandler

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