Thanks for the accuracy. I'm using it for my email signature, because my life seems to be imitating Chandler's art, and my writing tends to imitate life, due to the whole truth is stranger than fiction thing...
Russ
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: The Famous Chandler Quote...
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> Greetings from a longtime lurker:
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> 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.
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