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It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In
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Was she jealous?" "She was," he said, not yelling now, "and domineering, and spoiled, and suspicious, and greedy, and mean, and unscrupulous, and deceitful, and selfish, and damned bad--altogether damned bad!"
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The chief thing," I advised them, "is not to let her tire you out. When you catch her in a lie, she admits it and gives you another lie to take its place and, when you catch her in that one, admits it and gives you still another, and so on. Most people--even women--get discouraged after you've caught them in the third or fourth straight lie and fall back on either the truth or silence, but not Mimi. She keeps trying and you've got to be car..
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A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle.
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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.
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We begin well, sir," the fat man purred ... "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. ... Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. ... You're a close-mouthed man?" Spade shook his head. "I like to talk." "Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says th..
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I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.
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you'll have your city back, all nice and clean and ready to go to the dogs again
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What was that joke about a guy being so thin he had to stand in the same place twice to throw a shadow?
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denied.
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Cairo: You have always, i must say, a smooth explanation ready. Spade: What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?
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Porky Grout, whose yellowness was notorious from Seattle to San Diego, standing rigidly in the path of a charging metal monster, with an inadequate pistol in each hand. She had done that to Porky Grout--this woman beside me! She had done that to Proky Grout, and he hadn't even been human! A slimy reptile whose highest thought had been a skinful of dope had gone grimly to death that she might get away--she--this woman whose shoulders I had g..
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I squinted straight ahead into the wind that tore at my hair and face, and the absence of the windshield took my thoughts back to Porky Grout. Porky Grout, whose yellowness was notorious from Seattle to San Diego, standing rigidly in the path of a charging metal monster, with an inadequate pistol in each hand. She had done that to Porky Grout--this woman beside me! She had done that to Proky Grout, and he hadn't even been human! A slimy rep..
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I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar:
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Unplugged.
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His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband--say, forty--with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.
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On ischez, kak ischezaet kulak, kogda razzhimaesh' pal'tsy (<>)
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Ia ne doveriaiu liudiam, kotorye osteregaiutsia pit'. Esli chelovek boitsia napit'sia, znachit, on ne doveriaet sebe (<>)
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trust
алкоголь
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She's being stupid and she's sure she's being very clever, and that's a nuisance, but I don't think I hate her.
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he was a roly-poly elderly man with a stoop and a waddle--
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I told Nora: "I'm not one to suggest that your charm wouldn't make any man turn himself inside out for you, but don't be too sure that guy isn't kidding us." "So it's come to that," she said. "You're jealous of policemen." --
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The chief winked at me, an athletic wink in which all his facial muscles took part....
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I suppose you'll see her. You'll be disappointed at first. Then without being able to say how or when it happened, you'll find you've forgotten your disappointment, and the first thing you know you'll be telling her your life's history, and all your troubles and hopes.
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Elihu Willsson opened the meeting. He said things couldn't go on the way they were going. We were all sensible men, reasonable men, grown men who had seen enough of the world to know that a man couldn't have everything his own way, no matter who he was. Compromises were things everybody had to make sometimes. To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. He said he was sure that what we all most wanted now was to s..
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The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second "you." "People lose teeth talking like that." Spade's voice was still amiable though his face had become wooden. "If you want to hang around you'll be polite." The boy repeated his two words."
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Khorosho govorit tot, kto postoianno v etom praktikuetsia (<>)
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красноречие
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She jealous?" I asked before he could go on with his shouting. "And if you don't yell maybe I'll be able to hear you anyway. My deafness is a lot better since I've been eating yeast."
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Sam Spade: You're a good man, sister.
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Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.
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Men have thought me beautiful and I have played with them. Women are like that. Men have loved me, and doing what I liked with them, I have found men contemptible. And then comes this little fat detective whose name I don't know, and he acts as if i were a hag - an old squaw. Can I help then being piqued into some sort of feeling for him? Women are like that.
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Plans are all right sometimes," I said. "And sometimes just stirring things up is all right--if you're tough enough to survive, and keep your eyes open so you'll see what you want when it comes to the top."
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The Killer Inside Me
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He went like that," Spade said, "like a fist when you open your hand."
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The life he knew was a clean orderly sane responsible affair. Now a falling beam had shown him that life was fundamentally none of these things. He, the good citizen-husband-father, could be wiped out between office and restaurant by the accident of a falling beam. He knew then that men died at haphazard like that, and lived only while blind chance spared them.
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I don't like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn't like you." She" --
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You're like everybody else: some people like you, some people don't, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.
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guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two."
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Emotions are useless during business hours...
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Murder doesn't round out anybody's life except the murdered's and sometimes the murderer's.
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It's a long while since I burst out crying because policemen didn't like me.
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I said: 'All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant.
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hard-boiled
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Now I'm going to have my fun. I've got ten thousand dollars of your money to play with. I'm going to use it opening Poisonville up from Adam's apple to ankles.
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Emotions are useless during business hours.
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But where knowledge of trickery is evenly distributed, honesty not infrequently prevails.
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