| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11287 |
| QUOTATION: | An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Raymond Chandler (18881959), U.S. author. Letter, January 5, 1947, to Atlantic Monthly editor Charles W. Morton. Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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