"I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of."

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Source : "Mystery writer" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

Dashiell Hammett

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“One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.”
“A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.”

Source : "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.
“I just hated to lose.”
“Why is it rappers feel like they have to show each other their balls? It's so frustrating to me and the fact that I've come to the realization that I'm not playing that game and I'm just happy whether I'm sitting on the keyboard, up on the stage, or doing post edit vocals alignments for someone I don't even know, I'm happy. I am successful in my own eyes.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.”

Source : "Gene Wilder: a comic enigma whose genius shone brightest in collaboration" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2016.
“Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.”

Source : "Q+A: Jackie Earle Haley, Good-Natured Monster". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 10, 2012.
“I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to know oneself, - and I do know what I am not, and your regard for me has at least awakened me to believe in the possibility that I may yet make some impression with my "light" - my "dews" - my "breezes" - my bloom and freshness, - no one of which qualities has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.”

Source : Letter to C.R. Leslie (March 1833), from "The Letters of John Constable, R.A. to C. R. Leslie, R.A. 1826-1837", p. 104, 1931.
“I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.”

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