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«It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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admits, critics, entertainingly, harsh, in the same breath, The New York
«However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.»
«At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.»
«Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Television
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considerable, facet, facets, segment, segments
«If you liked a book, don't meet the author»
«The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.»
«Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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agents, commission, ethical, personification, the commission
«Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
«Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
«The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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