It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits i…

Raymond Chandler
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It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all. ✨ Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). Raymond Chandler Speaking, p.78, Univ of California Press
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