"What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life."

-- Lillian Vernon

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“We have to change laws. We have to change our approach to policing and incarceration in general. But we can get the population to a point where we can then go to the community-based facility models, where people should be able to await their trial dates, or if you're in jail for a year or less, if you have some sort of time that you have to spend in jail, that you can do it closer to your networks. Your family can visit you. You can talk about other ways of having people complete their time.”
“I don't do lullabyes.”
“The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.”
“I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.”
“When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.”
“Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.”

Source : Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.124, Vintage
“I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.”
“We need conservatives that can accept gays, and then we need hippies that can shave and bathe.”

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