Raymond Chandler Quotes
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Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.
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I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
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Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.
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Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
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Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
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All I am is what I'm going after.
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To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.
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The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
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Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?
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I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.
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It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
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I feel that I'm solid at description.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
