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Pearls are a Nuisance

Raymond Chandler
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“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”

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“He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus.
I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.”

Raymond Chandler book Pearls are a Nuisance

"Pearls Are a Nuisance" (short story, 1939)
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