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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
Dashiell Hammett
You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
Dashiell Hammett
How do you feel?" "Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober.
Dashiell Hammett
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.
Dashiell Hammett
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
Dashiell Hammett
I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
Dashiell Hammett
I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
Dashiell Hammett
A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.
Dashiell Hammett
If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
Dashiell Hammett
Emotions are useless during business hours.
Dashiell Hammett
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 blonde Satan.
Dashiell Hammett
Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
Dashiell Hammett
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
Dashiell Hammett
I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
Dashiell Hammett
It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
Dashiell Hammett
The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
Dashiell Hammett
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.
Dashiell Hammett
I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
Dashiell Hammett
You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.
Dashiell Hammett
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
Dashiell Hammett
To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
Dashiell Hammett
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
Dashiell Hammett
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