[b]Dashiell Hammett
I haven’t laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.[/b]
Actually he fed him to them.
The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they’re easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You’d think they’d be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
Not only that but no one knows why.
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
And isn’t that pretty much what I do here, Mr. Objectivist?
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
Yeah, but he’s Sam Spade.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
Or, here: The dumber the philosopher…
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.
And, after all, it is a material world.