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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 honour, 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 Thornton Chandler (1888-1959) American Short-story Writer, Novelist |
| Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe, nor as utterly fabulous on the screen. - Billy Wilder (1906-2002) Austrian-born American Film Producer, Director |
| I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. - Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-1959) American Short-story Writer, Novelist |
| The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. [The Long Goodbye] - Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-1959) American Short-story Writer, Novelist |
| An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. - Billy Wilder (1906-2002) Austrian-born American Film Producer, Director |
| What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. - Billy Wilder (1906-2002) Austrian-born American Film Producer, Director |
| Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) American Playwright, Novelist |
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