“The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.”
"Twelve Notes on the Mystery Story", published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler(1976)
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Novelist, screenwriter 1888–1959Related quotes
interview with Joan Simon, 1995 in Perfection is in the Mind, p. 86; as quoted in A House Divided: American Art Since 1955, Anne M. G. Wagner, Univ. of California Press, 2012, p. 263
1980 - 2000

September 1973, Los Angeles, USA, published in Light Reading Vol.1 No.1 Spring 1978 “Question on devotion and other answers”
Students of Prem Rawat clarify that at that time Rawat was making a distinction between the mind, which he described as including the dark or negative thoughts that a person may have; and heart, the place within each person where peace can be found.
1970s

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type.
Sai: Looks can be decieving.”
Source: Naruto, Vol. 32: The Search for Sasuke

Je ne conçois guère (mon cerveau serait-il un miroir ensorcelé?) un type de Beauté où il n'y ait du Malheur. Appuyé sur — d'autres diraient: obsédé par — ces idées, on conçoit qu'il me serait difficile de en pas conclure que le plus parfait type de Beauté virile est Satan, — à la manière de Milton.
XVI http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Fus%C3%A9es#XVI
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Fusées (1867)