Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – 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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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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. – Raymond Chandler
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