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Stories Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
- Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of…
- 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 perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can…
- The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average…
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