Dashiell Hammett

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• The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter

  The Maltese Falcon (1930), Chapter 12In context

  • Clever Jabs
  • Talking

• 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.

  The Maltese Falcon (1930), Chapter 20In context

  • Friendship
  • Justice
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  The Maltese Falcon (1930), Chapter 11In context

  • Character

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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