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The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is

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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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. – 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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If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be. – Cliff Richard

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The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. – John Keats

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I dont believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. – Charlie Chaplin

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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde

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