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Take Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
- The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off…
- I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a…
- I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
- The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure…
- There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough.…
- Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
- A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.
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