"The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged."

-- Raymond Chandler

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“Can't really despise people you don't know.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Each character represented a trait that resides in me.”
“I think a handwritten letter - a lot of guys don't realize what that means.It's those little romantic touches that tell a lady, "I like a lot of people, but you have a special place in my heart."”
“Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.”
“I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.”
“Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.”
“I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.”

Source : Susan M. Watkins (1984). “Conversations with Seth: The Story of Jane Roberts' ESP Class”, Prentice Hall Direct
“There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.”

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