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The truth is you don't like t...

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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Brigid: I haven't lived a goo...

Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

Who shot him? I asked. The gr...

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

It's awfully easy to be in lo...

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

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Yes,' Spade growled. 'And whe...

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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You're drunk, and I'm drunk, ...

You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

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Three times I have been mista...

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

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We didn't exactly believe you...

We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

When you write, you want fame...

When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

The people who lie the most a...

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

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Listen, Dundy, it's been a lo...

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

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The face she made at me was p...

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

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...What disturbed him was the...

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

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Nick: "Don't you think maybe ...

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.

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When a man's partner is kille...

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

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I distrust a man that says whe...

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

The people who lie the most ar...

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

You don't pay a prostitute for...

You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

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Strictly speaking, there are n...

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction

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Brigid O'Shaughnessy: 'I haven...

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: 'I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.Ђќ 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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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....