Top 30 Best Dashiell Hammett Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Best Dashiell Hammett

#1. 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 ...

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#2. He said: "I'm going to send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means you'll be out again in twenty years. You're an angel. I'll wait for you." He cleared his throat. "If they hang you I'll always remember you.

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#3. 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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#4. You're good. You're very good. It's chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get into your voice when you say things like 'Be generous, Mr. Spade.

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#5. Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.

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#6. She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

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#7. We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.

Daniel Woodrell

#8. 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.

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#9. Nora: "How do you feel?"
Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

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#10. Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us."
When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. "Now what's up?" I asked.
"Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that."
I said: "if you're lying to the old man, God'll punish you.

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#11. 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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#12. You might as well take your punishment and get it over with

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#13. 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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#14. 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?

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#15. Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Charles Frazier

#16. He went like that," Spade said, "like a fist when you open your hand.

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#17. 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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#18. Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.

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#19. The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second you.

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#20. My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

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#21. He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very.

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#22. Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny

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#23. I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

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#24. Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

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#25. I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott