“Brigid 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...”
Author detail
American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
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“Brigid 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...”
“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”
“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 moun...”
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“I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.”
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“I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.”
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“Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.”
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“It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.”
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“Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.”
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“Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.”
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“Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.”
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“I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.”
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