Dashiell Hammett Quote
Are you – who make your living snooping – sneering at my curiosity about people and my attempts to satisfy it? We're different, I said. I do mine with the object of putting people in jail, and I get paid for it, though not as much as I should. That's not different, he said. I do mine with the object of putting people in books, and I get paid for it, though not as much as I should. Yeah, but what good does that do? God knows. What good does putting them in jail do? Relieves congestion, I said. Put enough people in jail, and cities wouldn't have traffic problems.
Dashiell Hammett
Are you – who make your living snooping – sneering at my curiosity about people and my attempts to satisfy it? We're different, I said. I do mine with the object of putting people in jail, and I get paid for it, though not as much as I should. That's not different, he said. I do mine with the object of putting people in books, and I get paid for it, though not as much as I should. Yeah, but what good does that do? God knows. What good does putting them in jail do? Relieves congestion, I said. Put enough people in jail, and cities wouldn't have traffic problems.