The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
Tag: dashiell hammett
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September 15th, 2015 2:31am
For me Dashiell Hammett give a better look at the 1920s than F. Scott Fitgerald.
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August 11th, 2015 1:07pm
Brigid O’Shaughnessy: “I haven’t lived a good life. I’ve been bad, worse than you could know.”
Sam Spade “You know, that’s good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we’d never get anywhere"
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July 1st, 2015 1:27am
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June 25th, 2015 8:05pm
This book was fantastic! Now onto The Thin Man, and then The Glass Key. I’m hooked on Hammett…that sounds like something that should be a hashtag.
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December 21st, 2012 8:32pm
Ferris had lost some of his erectness. He wet his lips and said, “I want to see my lawyer. I don’t want to talk till I’ve seen my lawyer.”
Spade said, “It’s all right with me. You’re up against it, but I don’t like blackmailers myself. I think Eli wrote a good epitaph for them in that book back there – "Too many have lived.”