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Raymond Chandler

"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."

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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."

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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."

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"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

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"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."

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"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."

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"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."

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"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."

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"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."
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"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture."
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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 minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."
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"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
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