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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. - Raymond

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be. – Raymond Chandler

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Cats
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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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Society
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Storytelling
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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Storytelling

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. – Hannah Arendt

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Storytelling

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question. – Stephen Jay Gould

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou

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They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when youre paying them can they ever really be true friends? – Kelly Osbourne

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