One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

Raymond Chandler
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  2. Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. - George R.r. Martin

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  1. To say goodbye is to die a little.

  2. I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

  3. Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have...

  4. 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...

  5. Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may–until that time comes,...

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