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Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
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
I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
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
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.
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