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Dashiell Hammett Quotes: ...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
         

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.


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