An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of litera…

Raymond Chandler
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ✨ Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). Raymond Chandler Speaking, p.75, Univ of California Press
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ✨ Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). Raymond Chandler Speaking, p.75, Univ of California Press

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