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When A Man's Partner Is Killed He's Supposed To Do Something About It. It Doesn't Make Any Difference What You Thought Of Him. He Was Your Partner And You're Supposed To Do Something About It. Then It Happens We Were In The Detective Business. Well, When One Of Your Organization Gets Killed It's Bad Business To Let The Killer Get Away With It. It's Bad All Around-bad For That One Organization, Bad For Every Detective Everywhere. Sam Spade

I Distrust A Man That Says When. If He's Got To Be Careful Not To Drink To Much It's Because He's Not To Be Trusted When He Does.

When You Write, You Want Fame, Fortune And Personal Satisfaction. You Want To Write What You Want To Write And Feel It's Good, And You Want This To Go On For Hundreds Of Years. You're Not Likely Ever To Get All These Things, And You're Not Likely To Give Up Writing And Commit Suicide If You Don't, But That Is -- And Should Be -- Your Goal. Anything Else Is Kind Of Piddling.

I've Been As Bad An Influence On American Literature As Anyone I Can Think Of.

It's Sometimes Better To Pretend I Don't Hear The Sound Of Somebody In The Nearby Woods With A Shotgun.