The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i
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I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passT before it gets into print.
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So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.
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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.
Raymond Chandler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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