“When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.”
Raymond Chandler
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“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
Raymond Chandler
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“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.”
Raymond Chandler
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“It’s fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.”
Raymond Chandler
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“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.”
Raymond Chandler
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“A good title is the title of a successful book.”
Raymond Chandler
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“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
Raymond Chandler
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“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
Raymond Chandler
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“The more you reason the less you create.”
Raymond Chandler
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“A really good detective never gets married.”
Raymond Chandler
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“However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.”
Raymond Chandler
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“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”
Raymond Chandler
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“The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.”
Raymond Chandler
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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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