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
blonde satan
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
brother kids hog
I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
cairo want smooth
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
faces beats made
The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered
crooks noir sam-spade
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
gone bed sober
Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
red ships firsts
I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.
style ends found
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
lying believe thinking
The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
drinking men doe
I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
suicide giving-up writing
When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.
thinking dope wells
With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
hands cairo faces
Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.
taken san-francisco
Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.