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Quote by Raymond Chandler
[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could
[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler

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Hollywood
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Raymond Chandler
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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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Art
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. – Steven Wright

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Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. – Lou Krieger

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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. – Jonathan Swift

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Old card players never die, they just shuffle away. – Author Unknown

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