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The outcome of successful plan...

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

I first heard Personville call...

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

I found I was repeating myself...

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

Talking is something you can't...

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

Samuel Spade's jaw was long an...

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of
his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were
horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases
above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on
his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

A lot of fancier yarns come fr...

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

I've been as bad an influence ...

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

Feed the lettuce to the bunny ...

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

I haven't any sort of plans fo...

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

What I try to do is write a st...

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

Dashiell Hammett 72 quotes

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

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

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

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

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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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Our lawyers had their chat wit...

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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If you have a story that seems...

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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Strictly speaking, there are n...

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction

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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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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.

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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.

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Most things in San Francisco c...

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

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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....