“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?”

—  Dashiell Hammett

"The Cure" (unpublished story, first printed in The Hunter and Other Stories in 2013)
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American writer 1894–1961

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