I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
Dashiell HammettStichwörter: writing
Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
Dashiell HammettBrigid 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
Stichwörter: romance
You ought to have known I'd do it!" My voice sounded harsh and savage like a stranger's in my ears. "Didn't I steal a crutch from a cripple?
Dashiell HammettThe 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 HammettStichwörter: lies
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.
Dashiell HammettStichwörter: drinking
To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
Dashiell HammettStichwörter: want
I know a man who once stole a Ferris-wheel
Dashiell HammettWhen 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.
Dashiell HammettThe boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.
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