“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
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11APR2020 – Quote of the Day
“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
10APR2020 – Quote of the Day
“We didn’t exactly believe your story.’
Then –?’
‘We believed your two hundred dollars.’
‘You mean –‘ She seemed not to know what he meant.
‘I mean that you paid us more than if you’d been telling the truth,’ he explained blandly, ‘and enough more to make it all right.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
09APR2020 – Quote of the Day
“Well, Wilmer, I’m sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn’t be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but – well, by Gad! – if you lose a son it’s possible to get another – and there’s only one Maltese Falcon.”
Dashiell Hammett from The Maltese Falcon
08APR2020 – Quote of the Day
He took his hand from his chin and rubbed her cheek. “You’re a damned good man, sister,” he said and went out.
Dashiell Hammett from The Maltese Falcon
06APR2020 – Quote of the Day
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth?
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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03APR2020 – Quote of the Day
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
02APR2020 – Quote of the Day
I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands on it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend uon it – there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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