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> [Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/down-these-mean-streets-a-man-must-go-who-is-neither-tarnished-nor/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/tall-aren-t-you-i-didn-t-mean-to-be/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-faster-i-write-the-better-my-output-if-i-m-going-slow-i-m-in/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-tragedy-of-life-howard-is-not-that-the-beautiful-die-young-but/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/657/raymond-chandler-629_beautiful_the-tragedy-of-life-howard-is-not-that-t_954514.jpg)

> [The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-best-way-to-find-out-if-you-have-any-friends-is-to-go-broke-the/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/hammett-gave-murder-back-to-the-kind-of-people-that-commit-it-for/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/tall-aren-t-you-she-said-i-didn-t-mean-to-be-her-eyes-rounded-she-was/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/so-by-all-means-let-s-have-a-television-show-quick-and-long-even-if/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37e/raymond-chandler-629_coats_so-by-all-means-let-s-have-a-television_2982326.jpg)

> [In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/in-everything-that-can-be-called-art-there-is-a-quality-of-redemption-2/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/raymond-chandler-629_art_in-everything-that-can-be-called-art-the_851253.jpg)

> [Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/their-constant-yelping-about-a-free-press-means-with-a-few-honorable/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/down-these-mean-streets-a-man-must-go-who-is-not-himself-mean-who-is-3/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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## Other authors on Mean

## More by Raymond Chandler

> [Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/television-s-perfect-you-turn-a-few-knobs-a-few-of-those-mechanical/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/there-is-no-trap-so-deadly-as-the-trap-you-set-for-yourself/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/common-sense-is-the-guy-who-tells-you-that-you-ought-to-have-had-your/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [ “Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of \[The Glass Key\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/hammett-was-the-ace-performer-he-is-said-to-have-lacked-heart-yet-the/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/she-jerked-away-from-me-like-a-startled-fawn-might-if-i-had-a/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-good-story-cannot-be-devised-it-has-to-be-distilled/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/dashiell-hammett-took-murder-out-of-thevenetian-vase-and-dropped-it/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [ “He \[James Cain\] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/he-james-cain-is-every-kind-of-writer-i-detest-a-proust-in-greasy/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-was-a-blonde-a-blonde-to-make-a-bishop-kick-a-hole-in-a-stained/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-had-been-stalking-the-bluebottle-fly-for-five-minutes-waiting-for/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-three-piece-mexican-band-was-making-the-kind-of-music-a-mexican/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/mostly-i-just-kill-time-he-said-and-it-dies-hard/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-book-was-not-new-dates-were-stamped-on-the-front-endpaper-in-and/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/without-magic-there-is-no-art-without-art-there-is-no-idealism/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-homicide-skipper-that-year-was-a-captain-gregorius-a-type-of/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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