Dashiell Hammett Quotes - Page 2

• Estrictamente hablando, no hay sustitutos reales para la satisfacción sexual...

  Dashiell Hammett

  Real, Satisfaction, Substitutes

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• No tengo ningún plan para el futuro, pero creo que las cosas se arreglarán de alguna manera.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Funcionará, Las Cosas Funcionarán, Planes

  Dashiell Hammett (2002). "Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960", Counterpoint Press

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• Dale de comer lechuga al conejito y cómetelo.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Bunnies, Lettuce

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• 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

  Yarn, People, Trying

  "El hombre delgado". Libro de Dashiell Hammett, 1929.

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• Me di cuenta de que me estaba repitiendo. Es el principio del fin cuando descubres que tienes estilo.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Estilo, Finales, Encontrado

  Dashiell Hammett (2001). "Historias de crímenes y otros escritos"

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• The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Fall, Might, Roof

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• Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know.
  Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Good Life, Innocent, Spades

  "Fictional characters: Sam Spade, Brigid O'Shaughnessy". "The Maltese Falcon", 1941.

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• She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Wicked, Brunette, Type

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). "Novelas", Alfred A. Knopf

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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

  Dashiell Hammett

  Faces, Beats, Made

  Dashiell Hammett (2001). "Historias de crímenes y otros escritos"

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• 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

  Dashiell Hammett

  Men, Organization, Differences

  The Maltese Falcon ch. 20 (1930)

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• You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Girl, Drunk, Want

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). "Novelas", Alfred A. Knopf

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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.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Discovery, Steps, Affair

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.71, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Blonde, Satan

  1930 Of Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon,'Spade and Archer'.

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• 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.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Drinking, Men, Doe

  1930 The Maltese Falcon,'The Fat Man'

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• 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

  Eye, Hair, Yellow

  1930 Of Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon,'Spade and Archer'.

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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

  Sleep, Thinking, Helping

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• It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

  Dashiell Hammett

  Jail, Easy

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• Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Hands, Three, Cairo

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Dashiell Hammett

  Long, Tears, Policemen

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• With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Dope, Thinking, Wells

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

  Dashiell Hammett

  Nice, Love You, Smell

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). "Novelas", Alfred A. Knopf

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• I like women. I really like women.

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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.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Play, Paper, Rooms

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• 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.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Believe, Mean, Two

  1930 The Maltese Falcon,'The Black Bird'

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• 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

  Red, Ships, Firsts

  Dashiell Hammett (1982). “Sammlung”, MacMillan

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