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| ee6160b | Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good. | books potboilers dashiell-hammett william-faulkner quality sanctuary writers | Lillian Hellman | |
| fc302e6 | ...I was so often silent angry with Hammett for making the situation hard on me, not knowing then that the dying do not, should not, be asked to think about anything but their own minute of running time. | illness death dashiell-hammett sickness dying | Lillian Hellman |