Quote by Raymond Chandler
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

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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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Public
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Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Raymond Chandler

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Attitude
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. – H. L. Mencken

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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. – Franklin P. Adams

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What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. – Harry Caray

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The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individuals way of being in the world. – Stanislav Grof

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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. – Christopher Fry

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