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Dashiell Hammett

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He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.
DAVE TAYLOR With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' the...
RIAN JOHNSON Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirti...
CHARLES FRAZIER With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Another man whose social life has ruined him.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
DASHIELL HAMMETT She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting t...
DASHIELL HAMMETT [Yet he went on to make more than 50 feature films. After winning an Academy Award in 1976 for his r...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun...
DASHIELL HAMMETT It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with l...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid sh...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Thanks for the information about what we call business.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I like women. I really like women.
DASHIELL HAMMETT People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
DASHIELL HAMMETT You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
DASHIELL HAMMETT It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist...
DASHIELL HAMMETT ...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometim...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Dijo que las cosas no podían seguir por ese camino. Éramos todos hombres sensatos, hombres razonab...
DASHIELL HAMMETT When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any differenc...
DASHIELL HAMMETT She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like cro...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?
"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's &...
AVI Kirk Hammett, lead guitar and attempted vocals
KIRK HAMMETT كثيرون هم الذين ينسون حكايتهم مع الزمن ، أما أنا فلا .. و...
غالب حمزة أبو الفرج If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may...
ANON. Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mothe...
JOHN CONNOLLY You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
JEFF BEZOS . . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than oth...
NEIL GAIMAN Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so o...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to t...
JANELLE MONAE The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I have no regrets about starting Conor in goal. It would have been the same if we had Kyle or (Trey)...
BENJAMIN CANTU In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON She had similar characteristics to mammals. She was cranky and demanding.
LEE DASHIELL It would be like us losing our sense of smell.
LEE DASHIELL The mating was ferocious. Every day for two weeks. Who knows what they did at night when we went hom...
LEE DASHIELL That is sediment that came from the contaminated industrial canal. The sediments in the industrial c...
PAM DASHIELL Success would be the best revenge.
LOST PROPHETS So are we lost or do we know
Which direction we should go
Sit around and wait for someone ...
LOST PROPHETS Books are medicine for the soul. They heal the eternal parts of a person.
LORETTA LOST We must move forward with our first priority, the creation of an inspiring memorial to pay tribute t...
GEORGE PATAKI I have a little pussy,/ And her coat is silver-gray;/ She lives in a great wide meadow/ And she neve...
STORIES OF CHILDHOOD There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 ...
JOHN BOLTON I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was coo...
MARK BILLINGHAM People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
CHINUA ACHEBE People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
CHINUA ACHEBE I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to ge...
DAVID LEVITHAN Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
KRISTIN HANNAH Stories that teach, stories that heal: these are the stories people need to hear...
JOHN B. BEJO For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is ...
KIRK HAMMETT For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beel...
KIRK HAMMETT Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why....
KIRK HAMMETT For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on w...
KIRK HAMMETT When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp...
KIRK HAMMETT After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi...
KIRK HAMMETT For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outs...
KIRK HAMMETT I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my le...
KIRK HAMMETT The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing bu...
KIRK HAMMETT Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was o...
KIRK HAMMETT Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, g...
KIRK HAMMETT When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion beca...
KIRK HAMMETT Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the insid...
KIRK HAMMETT A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; ...
KIRK HAMMETT The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it...
KIRK HAMMETT If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becom...
KIRK HAMMETT Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has...
KIRK HAMMETT I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were whe...
KIRK HAMMETT I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, ou...
KIRK HAMMETT The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and ho...
KIRK HAMMETT Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
KIRK HAMMETT My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
KIRK HAMMETT It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar...
KIRK HAMMETT On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took t...
KIRK HAMMETT I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for fiv...
KIRK HAMMETT I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I ju...
KIRK HAMMETT My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
KIRK HAMMETT I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other th...
KIRK HAMMETT I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
KIRK HAMMETT We played our best baseball in regional last year. We will build on each week and hope to be playing...
BRAD HAMMETT Brent Swart and Caleb Wilson are expected to start and be solid. Many other will compete for playing...
BRAD HAMMETT Strengths are our pitching overall, pitching depth and defense.
BRAD HAMMETT I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
KIRK HAMMETT I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums...
KIRK HAMMETT I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much im...
KIRK HAMMETT Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
KIRK HAMMETT

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With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Another man whose social life has ruined him.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
DASHIELL HAMMETT She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting t...
DASHIELL HAMMETT [Yet he went on to make more than 50 feature films. After winning an Academy Award in 1976 for his r...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun...
DASHIELL HAMMETT It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with l...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
DASHIELL HAMMETT The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid sh...
DASHIELL HAMMETT I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Thanks for the information about what we call business.
DASHIELL HAMMETT I like women. I really like women.
DASHIELL HAMMETT People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
DASHIELL HAMMETT You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
DASHIELL HAMMETT It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist...
DASHIELL HAMMETT ...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometim...
DASHIELL HAMMETT The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
DASHIELL HAMMETT Dijo que las cosas no podían seguir por ese camino. Éramos todos hombres sensatos, hombres razonab...
DASHIELL HAMMETT When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any differenc...
DASHIELL HAMMETT She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like cro...
DASHIELL HAMMETT Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?
"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: ...
DASHIELL HAMMETT She had similar characteristics to mammals. She was cranky and demanding.
LEE DASHIELL It would be like us losing our sense of smell.
LEE DASHIELL The mating was ferocious. Every day for two weeks. Who knows what they did at night when we went hom...
LEE DASHIELL That is sediment that came from the contaminated industrial canal. The sediments in the industrial c...
PAM DASHIELL For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is ...
KIRK HAMMETT For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beel...
KIRK HAMMETT Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why....
KIRK HAMMETT For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on w...
KIRK HAMMETT When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp...
KIRK HAMMETT After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi...
KIRK HAMMETT For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outs...
KIRK HAMMETT I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my le...
KIRK HAMMETT The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing bu...
KIRK HAMMETT Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was o...
KIRK HAMMETT Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, g...
KIRK HAMMETT When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion beca...
KIRK HAMMETT Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the insid...
KIRK HAMMETT A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; ...
KIRK HAMMETT The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it...
KIRK HAMMETT If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becom...
KIRK HAMMETT Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has...
KIRK HAMMETT I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were whe...
KIRK HAMMETT I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, ou...
KIRK HAMMETT The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and ho...
KIRK HAMMETT Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
KIRK HAMMETT My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
KIRK HAMMETT It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar...
KIRK HAMMETT On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took t...
KIRK HAMMETT I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for fiv...
KIRK HAMMETT I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I ju...
KIRK HAMMETT My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
KIRK HAMMETT I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other th...
KIRK HAMMETT I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
KIRK HAMMETT We played our best baseball in regional last year. We will build on each week and hope to be playing...
BRAD HAMMETT Brent Swart and Caleb Wilson are expected to start and be solid. Many other will compete for playing...
BRAD HAMMETT Strengths are our pitching overall, pitching depth and defense.
BRAD HAMMETT I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
KIRK HAMMETT I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums...
KIRK HAMMETT Kirk Hammett, lead guitar and attempted vocals
KIRK HAMMETT I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much im...
KIRK HAMMETT Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
KIRK HAMMETT We're the underdogs. We haven't had a top ten hit, and we look like a bunch of bums out there. Amids...
KIRK HAMMETT I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just w...
KIRK HAMMETT Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
KIRK HAMMETT A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
KIRK HAMMETT A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome rever...
KIRK HAMMETT We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
KIRK HAMMETT Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo...
KIRK HAMMETT Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It'...
KIRK HAMMETT