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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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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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The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

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A different language is a different vision of life. – Federico Fellini

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