"I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)"

-- Dashiell Hammett

#Son Quotes #Wells Quotes #Falcon Quotes

“I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.”
“Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart.”
“I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!”
“By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.”
“The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.”

Source : Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie (2011). “CRUSADE: The Cursed Ones”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?”
“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.”
“Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.”

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