Dashiell Hammett Quote
He turned to face her. The two vertical lines above his nose were deep clefts between red wales. I don't give a damn about your honesty, he told her, trying to make himself speak calmly. I don't care what kind of tricks you're up to, what your secrets are, but I've got to have something to show that you know what you're doing. I do know. Please believe that I do, and that it's all for the best, and-- Show me, he ordered. I'm willing to help you. I've done what I could so far. If necessary I'll go ahead blindfolded, but I can't do it without more confidence in you than I've got now. You've got to convince me that you know what it's all about, that you're not simply fiddling around by guess and by God, hoping it'll come out all right somehow in the end.
He turned to face her. The two vertical lines above his nose were deep clefts between red wales. I don't give a damn about your honesty, he told her, trying to make himself speak calmly. I don't care what kind of tricks you're up to, what your secrets are, but I've got to have something to show that you know what you're doing. I do know. Please believe that I do, and that it's all for the best, and-- Show me, he ordered. I'm willing to help you. I've done what I could so far. If necessary I'll go ahead blindfolded, but I can't do it without more confidence in you than I've got now. You've got to convince me that you know what it's all about, that you're not simply fiddling around by guess and by God, hoping it'll come out all right somehow in the end.
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About Dashiell Hammett
Hammett is regarded as one of the very best mystery writers. In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Five years later, The Maltese Falcon placed second on The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time as selected by the Mystery Writers of America; Red Harvest, The Glass Key and The Thin Man were also on the list. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on mystery films, including the style that came to be known as film noir.