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Quote by Raymond Chandler
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

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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[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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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler

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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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Raymond Chandler
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Other Quotes from
Storytelling
category

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.

Category:
Storytelling

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. – Native American saying

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Storytelling

The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well. – Jane Yolen

Category:
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

Category:
Storytelling

Random Quotes

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. – Diogenes

Category:
Patriotism

A worker may be the hammers master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. – Milan Kundera

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Tools

I have a very lively and colourful show. Its two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself. – Rod Stewart

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Music

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. – Hugh Laurie

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Hope