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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. – 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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. – Samuel Butler

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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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