A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. ✨ Raymond Chan…

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. ✨ Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). Raymond Chandler Speaking, p.75, Univ of California Press
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