When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade
Dashiell HammettMy way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
Dashiell HammettShe grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
Dashiell HammettI 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.
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