![[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could](/quote/poker-elaborate-waste-human-intelligence-could.jpg "[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could")
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
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – 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
Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. – Anthony Holden