If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards. - Dashiell Hammett
You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.
- 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 … - 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 …
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery. - Dashiell Hammett
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. - Dashiell Hammett
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel. - Dashiell Hammett
I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.
The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps. - Dashiell Hammett
The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.
You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one. - Dashiell Hammett
You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun. - Dashiell Hammett
Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken. - Dashiell Hammett
Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.
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