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Dashiell Hammett, né le 27 mai 1894 à Baltimore, Maryland et mort le 10 janvier 1961 à New York, est un écrivain et scénariste américain. Considéré comme le fondateur du roman noir, sa contribution à la littérature américaine est d'une importance capitale. Des auteurs tels qu'Hemingway, Chandler ou le francophone Simenon ont chacun reconnu son influence sur leur propre travail. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. mai 1894 – 10. janvier 1961   •   Autres noms Samuel Dashiell Hammett
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Dashiell Hammett: Citations en anglais

“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre Red Harvest

Source: Red Harvest

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man

Source: The Thin Man

“You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre Red Harvest

Source: Red Harvest

“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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“"How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober."”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man

Nora & Nick
Source: The Thin Man (1929)

“Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

“"You got types?"
"Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws."”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man

Nora & Nick
Source: The Thin Man (1929)

“I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre Red Harvest

Source: Red Harvest

“The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man

Source: The Thin Man

“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

“I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Chap. 11, "The Fat Man"
Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Contexte: "We begin well, sir," the fat man purred … "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. … Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. … You're a close-mouthed man?"
Spade shook his head. "I like to talk."
"Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "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 keep in practice."

“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Spade
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)

“I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

“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, we'd never get anywhere”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

“Emotions are useless during business hours.”

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"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
Short Stories

“Did it ever occur to you that everybody is more or less afraid of nearly everything, and that courage isn't a damn thing but a habit of not dodging things because you're afraid of them?”

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"The Cure" (unpublished story, first printed in The Hunter and Other Stories in 2013)
Short Stories

“Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down-from high flat temples-in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blonde Satan.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon (1930)

“All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility.”

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"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
Short Stories

“A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man

Nick Charles
The Thin Man (1929)

“"Remember, I've got no idea what this is all about," said the girl when they were in the living room, a narrow room, where blue fought with red without ever compromising on purple.”

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"The Assistant Murderer" (published in Black Mask, February 1926)
Short Stories

“"You’re a damn good man, sister," he said and went out.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Spade
The Maltese Falcon (1930)

“If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.”

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"The Second-Story Angel" (published in Black Mask, 15 November 1923)
Short Stories

“Our conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them in private.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Cairo
The Maltese Falcon (1930)

“She keeps trying and you’ve got to be careful or you’ll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you’re tired of disbelieving her.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man

Nick Charles
The Thin Man (1929)

“"I’ve thrown myself on your mercy, told you that without your help I’m utterly lost.What else is there?" She suddenly moved close to him on the settee and cried angrily: "Can I buy you with my body?"”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

Bridgid
The Maltese Falcon (1930)

“But where knowledge of trickery is evenly distributed, honesty not infrequently prevails.”

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"Nightmare Town" (Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 27, 1924)
Short Stories

“Spade’s thick fingers made a cigarette with deliberate care, sifting a measured quantity of tan flakes down into curved paper, spreading the flakes so that they lay equal at the ends with a slight depression in the middle, thumbs rolling the paper’s inner edge down and up under the outer edge as forefingers pressed it over, thumbs and fingers sliding to the paper cylinder’s ends to hold it even while tongue licked the flap, left forefinger and thumb pinching their ends while right forefinger and thumb smoothed the damp seam, right forefinger and thumb twisting their end and lifting the other to Spade’s mouth.”

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Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon (1930)

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