"California, the department store state."

-- Raymond Chandler

#California Quotes #Dignity Quotes #States Quotes

“To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.”
“All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)”
“I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life was to write pop songs for people. It never felt right writing songs for other people to sing, though.”
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
“And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.”
“When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.”
“I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.”
“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.”

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