Dashiell Hammett

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1894-05-27

Books by Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon
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Red Harvest
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The Glass Key
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Quotes by Dashiell Hammett

Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.
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Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
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I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
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If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
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He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
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Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade —You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
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I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
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Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade —You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
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If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
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He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
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Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
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Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.
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Another man whose social life has ruined him.
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I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
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Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
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Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.
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It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
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The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.
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