Quotes About Dashiell

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

Goodis's fiction contains a tortured beauty that can take one's breath away. He may not have been Dashiell Hammett. But then Hammett was no David Goodis.

We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.

He's cute, I said. Uh-huh, the grey man agreed, and so's dynamite.

Are you asleep?" I said I was. She lit a cigarette for me, one for herself. "Don't you ever think you'd like to go back to detecting once in a while just for the fun of it?

He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very.

he always got a lot of fun of acting like the other half of a half-wit ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XX

Cairo: You have always, i must say, a smooth explanation ready. Spade: What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?

Asta jumped up and punched me in the belly with her front feet.