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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Raymond Chandler

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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
Really
Turn
Knobs
Looking
Primordial
Turns
Drain
Perfect
Drains
Lives
Lean
Thought
Bubbles
Back
Watching
Mind
Television
Ooze

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