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[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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. – Raymond Chandler

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[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. – Walter Matthau

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Poker is… a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature. – David A. Daniel

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Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom. – V.P. Pappy

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The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. – David Shoup

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