I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that f...or twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops ... I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Agnes: A half-smart guy, that's what I always draw. Never once a man who's smart all the way around the course. Never once. P...hilip Marlowe: I hurt you much, sugar? Agnes: You and every other man I've ever met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, we always called each other "goodfellas," like you'd say to somebody "you're gonna like this guy, he's all right, he's a... goodfella, he's one of us." You understand, we were goodfellas, wiseguys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We've got to figure these things a little bit different than most people. Y'know, there's something about going out in a plane tha...t beats any other way.... A guy that washes out at the controls of his own ship, well, he goes down doing the thing that he loved the best. It seems to me that that's a very special way to die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You think you're the only guy that ever got a kick in the teeth? Well you're not. It's happening every day and it's gonna keep rig...ht on happenin' till this thing's over. And you, you can sit here and feel sorry for yourself, or you can come on out with me and see how nice people are when they're alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the promise of automation seemed to exert a magnetic force, a seduction that promised to fulfill a dream of perfect control and... heal egos wounded by their needs for certainty. The dream contains the image of "people serving a smart machine," but in the shadow of the dream, human beings have lost the experience of critical judgment that would allow them to no longer simply respond but to know better than, to question, to say no.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tues...day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stupid or smart, there wasn't much choice about what was going to happen to me ... Growing up was like falling into a hole.... I m...ight not quit school, not while Mama had any say in the matter, but what difference would that make? What was I going to do in five years? Work in the textile mill? Join Mama at the diner? It all looked bleak to me. No wonder people got crazy as they grew up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »