#v

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#art #away #craft #desire #end

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

A really good detective never gets married. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#gets #good #married #never #really

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #human

I love imagining being someone else in another time. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#another time #being #else #i #i love

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#already #elegance #escaped #future #just

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#every #every man #man #night #right

He stepped into her line of sight and brushed the robe aside to press a tender kiss on her scarred breast. “They are part of you. I think you are beautiful with them.” “I’m not perfect like other shifters.” “I don’t want perfect because it doesn’t exist in any species. ↗

— Lia Davis

#lia-davis #magick #paranormal-romance #romance #shapeshifter

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#better #capitalism #convinced #i #i am

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel! ↗

— Coco Chanel

#chanel #only #several #westminster