"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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"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.“
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