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Raymond Chandler Quotes

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

Raymond Chandler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959

Topics

Gun Better You Said Need Take

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

Hollywood Hard Impression Seem Thing

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.

Identity People Me Giving Giving Up

To develop or not to develop, that is the question.

Question Develop

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

Music World Problems Done Jazz Rock

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.

History Brave Door Dangerous Need

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Rosalind Wiseman

Parent You Bad Manners Being Give

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

Time Art Me Think Serve Minute

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

Think Artist Country Person Singer

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Music Circumstances Affect Playing

An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.

Richard Jefferies

Heart Alone Health Deep Thought Air

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

Purpose Poetry Speak America Clear

Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, history, ruin, conflicting stories, and wounds badly healed; in short, the South.

History Book Short Shame Forgotten

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