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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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Raymond Chandler
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. – Raymond Chandler

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Hair
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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

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

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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Storytelling

Story gives people enough space to think for themselves. – Annette Simmons

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Storytelling

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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. – Graham Greene

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Failure

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. – Wendell Berry

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Competition

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Loneliness

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7

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Civilization