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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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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 public is wiser than the wisest critic. – George Bancroft

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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. – Andre Breton

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I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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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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