“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
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“There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had”
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“The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.”
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“It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.”
― Raymond Chandler Speaking
― Raymond Chandler Speaking
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