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Dashiell Hammett quotes about work

American Author May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961

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To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take "the lid off life and let [you] look at the works. Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett quote: "He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him..."
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works. Dashiell Hammett
Now I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there’d be no sense to it. That’s the fix I am in. I don’t know anything else, don’t enjoy anything else, don’t want to know or enjoy anything else. You can’t weight that against any sum of money. Money’s good stuff. I haven’t anything against it. Dashiell Hammett
So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of. Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett quote: "I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things..."
I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner. Dashiell Hammett

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