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By the way, do you ever read the Bible?  I suppose not very often, but
I had the occasion to the other night and believe me it is a lesson in
how not to write for the movies.  The worst kind of overwriting.
Whole chapters that could have been said in one paragraph.  And the
dialog!  I bet you Macmillan’s are sore as hell they
didn’t get to publish it.  They could have made it a best-seller
easy.  And as for getting it banned in Boston I don’t think
they’d even have to grease the Watch and Ward Committee to put
the red light on it.

Raymond Chandler to Edgar Carter, March 28, 1947

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