"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. "
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From: RG Naylor
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 00:11
Subject: RARA-AVIS: The Famous Chandler Quote...
Greetings from a longtime lurker:
What is that quote, that goes something like this: "There walks a man down these mean streets, who is not himself evil..."? Don't know the exact quote.
WarriorPoet
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