Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammettwas an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, and the Continental Op...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1894
CitySt Marys County, MD
CountryUnited States of America
sound woods sometimes
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
yarn people trying
A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.
thinking literature influence
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
discovery steps affair
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
love-you want spares
I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
girl drunk want
You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.
sides looks bright-side
You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
mind trouble film-noir
I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
boys two firsts
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.
sex thinking sailor
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
bunnies lettuce
Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
taken falcon felt
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
wicked brunette type
She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
good-life innocent spades
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