Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler quote Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Raymond Chandler quote A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler quote A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler quote As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler quote There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.
Raymond Chandler quote Biography
Lived 1888 - 1959, American writer of detective fiction
