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money’s just an idea, it has power. Only it’s not real power. Just the promise of power. But that promise is enough so long as everyone keeps pretending it’s real. Stop pretending and it all falls apart.’
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous."
(Great Thought, February 19, 1938)”
― The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
(Great Thought, February 19, 1938)”
― The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
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