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Joel “Joe” Cairo
The man that Sam Spade tells Brigid O’Shaughnessy about who suddenly disappears from his family after nearly being killed by a falling steal beam. After wandering aimlessly for a few months, Flitcraft settles down with in a new town where he marries a woman who resembles the wife he left.
Flitcraft Quotes in The Maltese Falcon
The The Maltese Falcon quotes below are all either spoken by Flitcraft or refer to Flitcraft. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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“His second wife didn’t look like the first, but they were more alike than they were different. You know, the kind of women that play fair games of golf and bridge and like new salad-recipes…I don’t think he even knew he settled back naturally into the same groove he had jumped out of in Tacoma.”
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“He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.”
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Flitcraft Quotes in The Maltese Falcon
The The Maltese Falcon quotes below are all either spoken by Flitcraft or refer to Flitcraft. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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“His second wife didn’t look like the first, but they were more alike than they were different. You know, the kind of women that play fair games of golf and bridge and like new salad-recipes…I don’t think he even knew he settled back naturally into the same groove he had jumped out of in Tacoma.”
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“He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.”
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