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.
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true I prefer to be.Raymond Chandler
If you believe in an ideal, you don't own you, it owns you.
Raymond Chandler
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
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