"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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"Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.“
-Raymond Chandler
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"It is not a fragrant world."
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"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
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"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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"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
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"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."
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