“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

letter, 22 April 1949, published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962)

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