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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 said: I'm going to send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means you'll be out again in twenty years. You're an angel. I'll wait for you. He cleared his throat. If they hang y...
Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts...
You always have, I must say, a smooth explanation ready.What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?
But besides I haven’t the time: I’m too busy trying to see that you don’t lose any of the money I married you for. I kissed her.
Plans are all right sometimes, I said. And sometimes just stirring things up is all right--if you're tough enough to survive, and keep your eyes open so you'll see what you want when it comes to the t...
Now I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there’d be no s...
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
It’s a long while since I burst out crying because policemen didn’t like me.
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know. Sam Spade You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never...
I'll give you your Christmas present now if you'll give me mine.I shook my head. At breakfast.But it's Christmas now.Breakfast.Whatever you're giving me, she said, I hope I don't like it.You'll have t...
I said: All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant and I don't want the child to be born with...
I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you. She
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 p...
A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle.
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 police...
The Killer Inside Me
She's being stupid and she's sure she's being very clever, and that's a nuisance, but I don't think I hate her.
Nick: Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?Nora: No, thanks.Nick: Maybe it would if I took one.