Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammettwas an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, and the Continental Op...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1894
CitySt Marys County, MD
CountryUnited States of America
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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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You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.
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I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...
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My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
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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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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
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