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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

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. – Raymond Chandler

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Attitude
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Raymond Chandler
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[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

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Poker
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Raymond Chandler
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Storytelling
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and thats the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. – Paul Auster

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Storytelling

The child began reading favorite stories of magic to the river, believing the tales would be carried to someone in need. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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Storytelling

Under the Earth I go,
On the oak leaf I stand.
I ride on the filly
That was never foaled,
And I carry the dead in my hand. – Anon.

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Storytelling

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. – Robert Olen Butler

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Storytelling

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen. – Renee Fleming

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teacher

You dont save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may rain. – Leo Durocher

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Sports :: Baseball

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog. – Edward Jesse, Anecdote of Dogs

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Dogs