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Quote by Raymond Chandler
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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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girls clothes off. – 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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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. – Raymond Chandler

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A man in public life expects to be sneered at — it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. – Charles Dickens

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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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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. – Abraham Lincoln

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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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People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesnt. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. – Jo Brand

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