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
men organization differences
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 still think you are a pain in the neck.
grey man neck scratched shot somebody
Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
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Thanks for the information about what we call business.
american-author slapping
Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.
american-author
I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
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Another man whose social life has ruined him.
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She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.
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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.
american-author
I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
gone bed sober
Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
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He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
play paper rooms
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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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.