"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."
-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."
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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 as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
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"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
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"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
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