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Dashiell Hammett Quotes

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

Dashiell Hammett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 27, 1894 - January 10, 1961

Topics

Me Will Anyone

Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.

Work Good Me Friday Better Guilt

I'm pretty good on my feet. I'm pretty decent at bobbing and weaving, but there's only so long you can bob and weave when you don't have a good base.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Good Feet Long You Pretty Weaving

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Own Our Subjectivity

My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!

Life Smile Reflection Fun Me Short

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Family Rock And Roll Done Rock Shame

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

Diversity Democracy Tradition Say

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

Jose Angel Gurria

Uncertainty Class Social Middle Many

'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.

Father Want Boy Used About

I very classically would go into manic phases, which were as dangerous, if not more so, than the depressed phases, and I think I'd come up with the best ideas I ever had, and then the next day, I'd look at them and be like, 'This is nonsense,' because it was born out of a manic episode. What a waste of time.

Time Best Day Ideas Think Look

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Lost Strange Precious Something Some

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

Words Lose Emotions Endeavor Seem

I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety.

Anxiety Comfortable Always Social

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