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

    Dashiell Hammett: ...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
    Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.71, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard