Dashiell Hammett Quotes
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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
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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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But where knowledge of trickery is evenly distributed, honesty not infrequently prevails.
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I didn't know then, and I don't know now, whether she was the owner of the world's best poker face or was just naturally stupid, but whichever she was, she was thoroughly and completely it.
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It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
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'Our conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them in private.'
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It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
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The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
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All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility.
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If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
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'You’re a damn good man, sister,' he said and went out.
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Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
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'Tall-over six feet-and one of the thinnest men I’ve ever seen. He must be about fifty now and his hair was almost white when I knew him.Usually needs a haircut, ragged brindle mustache, bites his fingernails.' I pushed the dog away to reach for my drink.
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'Remember, I've got no idea what this is all about,' said the girl when they were in the living room, a narrow room, where blue fought with red without ever compromising on purple.
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With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
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'The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.'
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His features were small, in keeping with his stature, and regular. His skin was very fair. The whiteness of his cheeks was as little blurred by any considerable growth of beard as by the glow of blood. His clothing was neither new nor of more than ordinary quality, but it, and his manner of wearing it was marked by a hard masculine neatness.
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'How do you feel?''Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober.'
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I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
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'That’s why I don’t very often drink, or even smoke. I want to try cocaine, though because that’s suppose to sharpen the brain, isn’t it?'
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I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
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I like women. I really like women.
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You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
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People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.