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Literature Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
- James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in…
- If you liked a book, don't meet the author
- 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,…
- The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public…
- When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.
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