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| Raymond Chandler
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. 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. 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. He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday. I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. 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. It is not a fragrant world. 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. It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. 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. When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. |
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