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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

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girls clothes off. – Raymond Chandler

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Love
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Raymond Chandler
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The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler

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Public
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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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Other Quotes from
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

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

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Storytelling

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

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Im obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era. – Lauren Conrad

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cool

The purpose of a business is to create a customer. – Peter Drucker

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Business

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. – Oscar Niemeyer

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design

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. – Robert Herrick

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Happiness