Dashiell Hammett: Doing
Dashiell Hammett was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
“"How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober."”
Nora & Nick
Source: The Thin Man (1929)
… Spade set the edges of his teeth together and said through them: "I won't play the sap for you."
Chap. 20, "If They Hang You"
spoken by the character "Sam Spade" to "Brigid O'Shaughnessy."
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
My voice sounded harsh and savage and like a stranger's in my ears. "Didn't I steal a crutch from a cripple?"
final lines, The Gutting of Couffignal (published in Black Mask, December 1925)
Short Stories