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Tricks Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all.…
- The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant…
- She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know…
- Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the…
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