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“Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“I like Harvey Keitel. I liked him in Mean Streets. Im a fan.”

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Author:Richard Ben-Veniste

“Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.”

Ifs Men May Mean Art Strong Quality Streets Pure Laughter Tragedy Pity Redemption Irony Strong Man Mean Streets

Author:Raymond Chandler

“The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.”

May Mean Sometimes Humanity Born Streets Dirty Restaurants Villain Plates Rebellious Convenient Scrap Outcast Arthur Cab Vagabonds Mean Streets

Author:Patti Smith

“It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”

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Book:The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words

Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words

“Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid”

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Author:Raymond Chandler

“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”

Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.”

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Book:The Simple Art of Murder

Source: The Simple Art of Murder

“You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.”

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Author:Guillaume Canet