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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2abff7e | When it came to keeping a secret, that kid was a time bomb. | Pamela F. Service | ||
| 52487a1 | Going somewhere, little lovers? | Pamela F. Service | ||
| 84e8cb0 | My only ally was a snotty alien dinosaur who I hadn't seen in days. | Pamela F. Service | ||
| 6771648 | Hurry. You so slow! | Pamela F. Service | ||
| 8eb3b72 | Even now that I'd learned i wasn't human, | Pamela F. Service | ||
| e4d97ed | In a dream you are never eighty. | Anne Sexton | ||
| b107490 | denied. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 27ec2b9 | Cairo: You have always, i must say, a smooth explanation ready. Spade: What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter? | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 94f1470 | 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.. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| b777d6e | 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.. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| adcef9a | I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar: | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 96f0a2c | Unplugged. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| ec500d4 | 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. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| f38a0cb | Goodis's fiction contains a tortured beauty that can take one's breath away. He may not have been Dashiell Hammett. But then Hammett was no David Goodis. | Woody Haut | ||
| 9403909 |
On ischez, kak ischezaet kulak, kogda razzhimaesh' pal'tsy (< |
Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 95d8050 |
Ia ne doveriaiu liudiam, kotorye osteregaiutsia pit'. Esli chelovek boitsia napit'sia, znachit, on ne doveriaet sebe (< |
trust алкоголь доверие | Dashiell Hammett | |
| c1c7a7a | 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. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 5b1ea60 | Thanks to Dashiell Hammett. "He was thin, walked with a stick, and was the only private dick I knew who used the pockets of his sport coat. Maybe that means something, maybe not." Ramone Ramone, 2013" | fiction humor mystery | Thomas deKooning | |
| 9ebfa64 | he was a roly-poly elderly man with a stoop and a waddle-- | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| f540849 | 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." -- | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| ab7aee6 | The chief winked at me, an athletic wink in which all his facial muscles took part.... | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 08b3cfe | 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. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 0bf1cb2 | 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.. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 42f3dca | 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." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| ac12532 | And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets with a perfunctory mystery element dropped in like the olive in a martini. (The Simple Art of Murder) | detective-stories hard-boiled | Raymond Chandler | |
| c6e9d06 |
Khorosho govorit tot, kto postoianno v etom praktikuetsia (< |
practice красноречие практика | Dashiell Hammett | |
| d950077 | 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." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 6b55712 | Sam Spade: You're a good man, sister. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 34aa497 | Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 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. | dashiell-hammett death dying illness sickness | Lillian Hellman | |
| e1ff2d4 | 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. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 2e76e9a | 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." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 8e06d2d | The Killer Inside Me | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 00f57f7 | He went like that," Spade said, "like a fist when you open your hand." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| e07191e | 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. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| d94c339 | 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" -- | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 17a37c5 | 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. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 6537a1a | guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 61742b0 | Emotions are useless during business hours... | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 8d62500 | Murder doesn't round out anybody's life except the murdered's and sometimes the murderer's. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| f5f7e84 | It's a long while since I burst out crying because policemen didn't like me. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 1255f52 | I said: 'All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant. | hard-boiled noir | Dashiell Hammett | |
| 908930e | 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. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| c6fe7c1 | I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws. | Anne Sexton |