Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.


Raymond Chandler Speaking (ed. Univ of California Press, 1977) - ISBN: 9780520208353


Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can...

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can...

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can...

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can...