Frases de Dashiell Hammett

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Dashiell Hammett

Fecha de nacimiento: 27. Mayo 1894
Fecha de muerte: 10. Enero 1961
Otros nombres:Samuel Dashiell Hammett

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Samuel Dashiell Hammett fue un escritor estadounidense de novela negra, cuentos cortos y guiones cinematográficos, además de activista político. Entre los personajes más recordados que creó se encuentran Sam Spade , la pareja de detectives Nick y Nora Charles y el agente de la Continental . También escribió bajo los seudónimos de Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell y Mary Jane Hammett.

Frases Dashiell Hammett

„Desapareció - dijo Spade - como desaparece un puño cuando se abre la mano.“

— Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon

„Dijo que las cosas no podían seguir por ese camino. Éramos todos hombres sensatos, hombres razonables, hombres hechos y derechos que habían visto suficiente mundo para saber que uno no puede salirse siempre con la suya, fuera quien fuese. Todo el mundo tenía que transigir alguna vez. Para conseguir lo que quería, un hombre tenía que dar a otros lo que necesitaban“

— Dashiell Hammett

De hombres, de mundo

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

— Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

„He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.“

— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

„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.“

— Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

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

— Dashiell Hammett, 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.“

— Dashiell Hammett

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

— Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
Nora & Nick

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

— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

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

— Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
Nora & Nick

„I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.“

— Dashiell Hammett

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

— Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

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„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.“

— Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

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

— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

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

— Dashiell Hammett, 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.“

— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Context: "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." Chap. 11, "The Fat Man" Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.