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"How many dramas have you in France, sir?" said Candide to the Abbé.

"Five or six thousand."

"What a number!]]" said Candide. "How many good?"

"15 or 16" replied the other [critic].

"What a number!" said Martin.
"Don't feel bad, Homer. Nine out of ten religions fail in their first year."
"The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does."
Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder
"Nine- tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."