The Dain Curse Quotes

“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 paid for it, though not as much as I should." "That's not different," he said. "I do mine with the object of putting people in books, and I get paid for it, though not as much as I should." "Yeah, but what good does that do?" "God knows. What good does putting them in jail do?" "Relieves congestion," I said. "Put enough people in jail, and cities wouldn't have traffic problems.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse

“he always got a lot of fun of acting like the other half of a half-wit ― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XX”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse

“Los indicios de chifladura son bien sencillos de encontrar, y cuanto más ahondamos en nosotros mismos, más salen a relucir.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse

“anybody who started hunting for evidence of insanity in himself would certainly find plenty ― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch 20”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse

“his round eyes looking quite proud of their owner.”
― Dashiell Hammett, THE DAIN CURSE

“You're never satisfied until you've got two buts and an if attached to everything.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse

“You’re old enough to know that everybody except very crazy people and very stupid people suspect themselves now and then – or whenever they happen to think about it – of not being exactly sane. ― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XIX”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse