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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

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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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Raymond Chandler
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Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Raymond Chandler

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Attitude
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Raymond Chandler
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I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability. – Raymond Chandler

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Cats
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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. – Anthony De Mello

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Storytelling

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen

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Storytelling

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. – Terry Tempest Williams

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Storytelling

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

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