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- The more you reason the less you create.
- Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
- The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be…
- The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some…
- Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down…
- 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…
- I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
- The streets were dark with something more then night.
- Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft…
- It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be…
- Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no…
- You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind…
- I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in…
- Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and…
- The streets were dark with something more than night.
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