Raymond Chandler
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He 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, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world ✨ Raymond Chandler (2014). The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words, p.69, Vintage

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