"I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin."

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Raymond Chandler

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“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”
“Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.”

Source : Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
“From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.”
“Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're not referring to somebody who has an accent who's slightly different to theirs.”
“To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?”
“Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.”
“The idea of a life plan, "I'm here now, where do I need to go to..." There's always "And then what?" And eventually the end of that "and then what?" is death. I've just learned that I can't have such a narrow focus as I did as a child, because there is no end point, and eventually you feel empty if you're not also nourishing other things: joy, love, relationships.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities.”

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