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“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.”
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“My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.”
― The Drowning Pool
― The Drowning Pool
“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
“...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...”
― The Thin Man
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...”
― The Thin Man
“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”
― The Maltese Falcon
Sam Spade”
― The Maltese Falcon
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