"Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight."

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Source : Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”

Dashiell Hammett

#Worry Quotes #Stories Quotes #Tonight Quotes

“At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.”
“We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food”

Source : "Commentary: Health care can't wait" By Kathleen Sebelius, www.cnn.com. July 15, 2009.
“The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.”
“When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.”

Source : "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.
“Islam is a dead thing.”
“Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.”
“Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.”
“America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.”

Source : Timothy Garton Ash (2005). “Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West”, p.28, Vintage

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