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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “His eyes burned yellowly.”

101. “His eyes burned yellowly.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “When she had finished, he grimaced impatiently. “That’s silly. Mamma’s not really dangerous. She’s just a case of arrested development. Most of us have outgrown ethics and morals and so on. Mamma’s just not grown up to them yet.”

102. “When she had finished, he grimaced impatiently. “That’s silly. Mamma’s not really dangerous. She’s just a case of arrested development. Most of us have outgrown ethics and morals and so on. Mamma’s just not grown up to them yet.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “He stood beside the fireplace and looked at her with eyes that studied, weighed, judged her without pretense that they were not studying, weighing, judging her.”

103. “He stood beside the fireplace and looked at her with eyes that studied, weighed, judged her without pretense that they were not studying, weighing, judging her.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “Here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding.”

104. “Here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “She’s been sulking for a week. If I didn’t drink I’d go crazy.” “What’s she sulking about?” “About my drinking.”

105. “She’s been sulking for a week. If I didn’t drink I’d go crazy.” “What’s she sulking about?” “About my drinking.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “She’s in,” he said when I joined him. “She went up the road, cut across through some bushes, came back to the edge of the cliff, and slid feet-first through a cellar window.” That was nice. The crazier the people you are sleuthing act, as a rule, the nearer you are to an ending of your troubles.”

106. “She’s in,” he said when I joined him. “She went up the road, cut across through some bushes, came back to the edge of the cliff, and slid feet-first through a cellar window.” That was nice. The crazier the people you are sleuthing act, as a rule, the nearer you are to an ending of your troubles.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “I looked most honest when I was lying.”

107. “I looked most honest when I was lying.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “I don’t think he even knew he had settled back naturally into the same groove he had jumped out of in Tacoma. But that’s the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.”

108. “I don’t think he even knew he had settled back naturally into the same groove he had jumped out of in Tacoma. But that’s the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “For myself, I counted on coming through all in one piece. Few men get killed. Most of those who meet sudden ends get themselves killed.”

109. “For myself, I counted on coming through all in one piece. Few men get killed. Most of those who meet sudden ends get themselves killed.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “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 stop this insane killing.”

110. “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 stop this insane killing.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “He was apparently as many years past forty as Spade was past thirty.”

111. “He was apparently as many years past forty as Spade was past thirty.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “I think you probably know what you’re doing and whatever you do is your own business.”

112. “I think you probably know what you’re doing and whatever you do is your own business.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “Liking work makes you wan to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there’d be no sense to it.”

113. “Liking work makes you wan to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there’d be no sense to it.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “Our conversations in private have not been such that I am anxious to continue them.”

114. “Our conversations in private have not been such that I am anxious to continue them.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “We begin well, sir,” the fat man purred, turning with a proffered glass in his hand. “I distrust a man that says when. If he’s got to be careful not to drink too much it’s because he’s not to be trusted when he does.”

115. “We begin well, sir,” the fat man purred, turning with a proffered glass in his hand. “I distrust a man that says when. If he’s got to be careful not to drink too much it’s because he’s not to be trusted when he does.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “Morelli shook his battered head. “I don’t apologize for what I do – people’ve got to take it or leave it – but I don’t mind telling you I’m sorry I lost my noodle and cracked down on you and I hope it ain’t bothering you much and if there’s anything I can do to square it I –.”

116. “Morelli shook his battered head. “I don’t apologize for what I do – people’ve got to take it or leave it – but I don’t mind telling you I’m sorry I lost my noodle and cracked down on you and I hope it ain’t bothering you much and if there’s anything I can do to square it I –.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “Take any man you like – unless he is the one in a hundred thousand with a mind trained to keep things straight, and not always even then – get him excited, show him something, give him a few hours to think it over, and then ask him about it. It’s dollars to doughnuts that you’ll have a hard time finding any connection between what he saw and what he says he saw.”

117. “Take any man you like – unless he is the one in a hundred thousand with a mind trained to keep things straight, and not always even then – get him excited, show him something, give him a few hours to think it over, and then ask him about it. It’s dollars to doughnuts that you’ll have a hard time finding any connection between what he saw and what he says he saw.”

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Dashiell Hammett Quote: “The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.”

118. “The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.”

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