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5 days ago

Alternative life style and New Age and Manu Shanker Mishra is fine.His books are most difficult to read.But he also teaches the most respectful way of doing nothing.Meditation.
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5 days ago

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6 days ago

Its a curse that has been affecting people from the very beginning of its invention. This curse doesn't seem like vanishing any sooner.
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6 days ago

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6 days ago

Chandler was an alcoholic, and his views on liquor are both intriguing and witty, and not infrequently profound. Those of us who are drunkards will recognize a lot of truth in the above statement.
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7 days ago

I love everything this guy does. He's a former National Lampoon Art Director/Sr. Editor and did some brilliant stuff there. His Newsflash animations were brilliant. "The Jaded Superstar" with Michael Jordan and the Chinese kid still cracks me up. His books Weird California and Weird Las Vegas were great and I understand he's writing Weird Hollywood now. I just found his blog. Excellent articles and artwork. http://joeartistwriter.wordpress.com/
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7 days ago

This is another quote from the brilliant essay "The Simple Art of Murder" describing the protagonist in the realistic crime story.

It has always struck me as not a bad way to live one's own life.
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7 days ago

This is part of the opening paragraph of Chandler's brilliant story "Red Wind." Sometimes called the 79 hardest boiled words ever written, the full paragraph goes like this:

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."

With that paragraph Chandler begins a story of revenge, greed and deceit that is the best of his short fiction and one of the greatest short stories ever written. In my opinion, if you read nothing else of Chandler, you should read "Red Wind"
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7 days ago

Another of Chandler's more famous lines, displaying the rough witty imagery that was unique to him. His style has often been imitated by other, lesser writers, but never matched.
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7 days ago

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