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
- Raymond Chandler
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The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore... The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within... If you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world; and if you’re not kind then you... When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor... Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the... It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to...
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