"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."

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Source : Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.124, Vintage

Raymond Chandler

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“I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.”
“Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.”
“The style of mustache I have is called a Hungarian, and you need a certain type of viscosity in the wax to make it work.”

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“I don't actually like people. I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.”

Source : "A way with words: the wit, wisdom and weirdness of Tony Adams". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2009.
“Why havenâ€™t you asked me how I do my tricks?â€ Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. â€œBecause I do not wish to know,â€ he says. â€œI prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.”
“I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.10, Penguin
“Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.”

Source : "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt (p.115), 1890.
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”

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