1) “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 ...
2) " ... 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.
“He will take no man's money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge.
“He will take no man's money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge.
3) "He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him.
“The story is this man's adventure in search of a hidden truth ... If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in." Raymond Chandler
“The story is this man's adventure in search of a hidden truth ... If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in." Raymond Chandler
@threadreaderapp unroll 1) "Down these mean streets
