"If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen."

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Source : Dashiell Hammett (2013). “The Hunter and Other Stories”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Dashiell Hammett

#Sex Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.”
“Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.”
“The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.”
“Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.”
“Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person.”
“We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact that their families, their parents were back home in American prison camps. It's savagely ironic that between themselves and the African-American soldiers, who were also segregated and didn't see the fruition of the work the culminated in the Civil Rights Act until the '60s, that these American heroes and their stories are not well known; and the fact that the 442nd/100th became the most decorated unit in U.S. history.”
“The most important things cannot be spoken; thatâ€™s why thereâ€™s music.”

Source : "The Death of Yesterday" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.
“And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.”

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