"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled."

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Source : Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.75, Univ of California Press

Raymond Chandler

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I know from my own life that you canâ€™t move forward unless you reach out and deal honestly with the past. The truth is that when it comes to race and class, Boston has a lot of unfinished business. We must not be afraid to talk about it.”
“My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life. Those twenty extra years - one is grateful for them, one is happy, but they also give you ten or twenty years more of losing your faculties. That is actually the origin of my notion. Once you live longer than you're supposed to live, things go dreadfully wrong. But nevertheless, you're not dead.”
“He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.”
“What is really important is what you learn after thinking you know it all.”
“First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.”
“I don't like showing my privacy online.”

Source : "Eduardo Saverin Finally Opens Up: 'No Hard Feelings Between Me And Mark Zuckerberg'" by Anderson Antunes, www.forbes.com. May 27, 2012.
“God has allowed me to communicate well with people who are younger than me.”
“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.”

Source : "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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