Status Updates From The Raymond Chandler Papers...

“the pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking and drabbing, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never really ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this

"una era que es incapaz de poesía es incapaz de cualquier clase de literatura"

"Cosa rara la civilización. Promete tanto, y todo lo que da es producción en masa de mercadería vulgar para gente vulgar".