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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Embroidered
Technique
Alone
Passion
Enough
Writing
Never

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