"I could teach you," he said in his soft voice. "But to what purpose? A dirty little man in a dirty little world. One spot of brightness on you and you would still be that. Is it not so?" He smiled, so beautifully.

Amthor dismisses Marlowe while holding him at gunpoint.

— Amthor in Philip Marlowe #2 - Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler, 1940)


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