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I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...
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I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.
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Another man whose social life has ruined him.
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Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
— Raymond Chandler
You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.
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You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
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Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
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Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
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He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
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Thanks for the information about what we call business.
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It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
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I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
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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? — Dashiell Hammett
It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In
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Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: "Stop being nasty. — Dashiell Hammett
To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works.
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She grinned at me. 'You got types?''Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. — Dashiell Hammett
![Dashiell Hammett Quotes By Dorothy Parker: [On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/dashiell-hammett-quotes-by-dorothy-parker-722259.jpg "Dashiell Hammett Quotes By Dorothy Parker: [On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled")
[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.
— Dorothy Parker
What do you do with all your money?""Me and the French hoard gold. — Dashiell Hammett
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.
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He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
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The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
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That's Mama, divorces a lunatic and marries a gigolo.
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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
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This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.
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I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two ... — Dashiell Hammett
Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.page 155 — Dashiell Hammett
I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
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She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.
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Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.
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His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband - say, forty - with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.
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What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow?
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The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
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You might as well take your punishment and get it over with
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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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I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
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I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it. Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon)
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He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very.
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I said: "You don't want to pick a fight with me, Mimi."She looked at me as if she were going to say I love you, and asked: "Is that a threat? — Dashiell Hammett
How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?Why don't you stay sober today?
We didn't come to New York to stay sober. — Dashiell Hammett
I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
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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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I know a man who once stole a Ferris-wheel
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Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun. — Dashiell Hammett
You ought to have known I'd do it!" My voice sounded harsh and savage like a stranger's in my ears. "Didn't I steal a crutch from a cripple?
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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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A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle.
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Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. — Dashiell Hammett
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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I like women. I really like women.
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With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
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How do you feel?" "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
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The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second you.
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To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
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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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It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow.
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Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.
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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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He went like that," Spade said, "like a fist when you open your hand.
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And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade
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You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?
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Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?"Nora: "No, thanks."
Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one. — Dashiell Hammett
I said: All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant and I don't want the child to be born with ...
— Dashiell Hammett
Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.
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He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.
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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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But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.
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Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.
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He's cute," I said. "Uh-huh," the grey man agreed, "and so's dynamite. — Dashiell Hammett
Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny
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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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I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me.I probably didn't jump twenty feet. — Dashiell Hammett
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
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The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.
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Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
— James Ellroy
