"What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?"

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Raymond Chandler

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“Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.”

Source : Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.
“I've never done Something Rotten either.”
“Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer”
“Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.”
“Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.”
“Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth.”
“The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?”

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