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Sense Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
- The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense…
- It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language…
- [As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and…
- Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end…
- I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the…
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