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  • It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

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    Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.35, Grove Press

  • It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

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    Raymond Chandler (1995). “Later Novels & Other Writings”
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Raymond Chandler

  • Born: July 23, 1888
  • Died: March 26, 1959
  • Occupation: Novelist
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