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Raymond Chandler
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"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Society
"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Attitude
"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Attitude
"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Intelligence
"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Food
"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."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Power
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Intelligence
"It is not a fragrant world."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Society
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Smile
"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."
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Raymond Chandler
Topic(s):
Art
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