Down These Mean Streets

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. If there were enough like him, I think the world would be a very safe place to live in, and yet not too dull to be worth living in.

From the Book The Simple Art of Murder, 1945, ISBN 0394757653

Copyright © 1945 by Raymond Chandler

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