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Letter "R" » Raymond Chandler Quotes
«They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.»
«I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.»
«He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Food
| Keywords:
inconspicuous, slice, sliced, slices, slicing, tarantula
«I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Psychiatry
| Keywords:
bunk, fancy, fifty, fifty percent, fraud, frauds, guts, hundreds, lingo, parrot, parrots, psychiatry, remaining, ten percent, thirty, Thousands
«There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.»
«It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.»
«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»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Writers
| Keywords:
craft, crafted, crafts, Everything or Nothing, fiction writer, Nothing to say, tricks
«From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.»
«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.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Critical thinking, cut to, dishonest, drivel, driveling, oblivion, sensations
«I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.»
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