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Dashiell Hammett Quotes

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“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 trusted when he does.”
— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Tagged: Life
“I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you practice.”
— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Tagged: Life
“I do like a man that tells you right out he's looking out for himself. Don't we all? I don't trust a man that says he's nit. And the man that's telling the truth when he says he's not I distrust most of all, because he's an ass and ass that's going contrary to the laws of nature.”
— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Tagged: Life
“He had been raised that way. The people he knew were like that. The life he knew was a clean orderly responsible affair. Now a falling beam had shown him that life was fundamentally none of these things. He, the good citizen-husband-father, could be wiped out between office and restaurant by the accident of a falling beam. He knew then that men died at haphazard like that, and lived only while blind chance spared them.”
— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Tagged: Life
“It was not, primarily, the injustice of it that disturbed him: he accepted that after the first shock. 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 said he knew before he had gone twenty feet from the fallen beam that he would never know peace again until he had adjusted himself to this new glimpse of life. By the time he had eaten his luncheon he had found his means of adjustment. Life could be ended for him at random by a falling beam: he would change his life at random by simply going away. He loved his family, he said, as much as he supposed was usual, but he knew he was leaving them adequately provided for, and his love for them was not of the sort that would make absence painful.”
— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Tagged: Life
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