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 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.Raymond Chandler
The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
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The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce an artistic job of writing.
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