May. 22, 2012 at 4:32am with 62 notes
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theredshoes: …. He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature, and it’s a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmetic racketeers, so that one is almost ashamed to use it to describe a real distinction. Nevertheless, the word is charm—charm as Keats would have used it. Who has it today? It’s not a matter of pretty writing or clear style. It’s a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartettes.— Raymond Chandler on F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Dale Warren, November 12th 1950

theredshoes:

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He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature, and it’s a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmetic racketeers, so that one is almost ashamed to use it to describe a real distinction. Nevertheless, the word is charm—charm as Keats would have used it. Who has it today? It’s not a matter of pretty writing or clear style. It’s a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartettes.

— Raymond Chandler on F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Dale Warren, November 12th 1950

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    I love that quote, it’s so amazing.
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