Tag: sam spade

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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"

    — Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1929)

  • 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.”

    — Too Many Have Lived by Dashiell Hammett