Never Quite Defeated

            Marlowe's type shouldn't get married. Because he is a lonely man, a poor man, a dangerous man and yet a sympathetic man, and somehow none of this goes with marriage. I think he will always have a fairly shabby office, a lonely house, a number of affairs, but no permanent connection ......... I see him always in a lonely street, in lonely rooms, puzzled but never quite defeated.

Raymond Chandler
Letter to a friend - 21st Feb 1959

(Chandler Died 26th March 1959)

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Night Shadows
Edward Hopper