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I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

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Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

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She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

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Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

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Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

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That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

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James M. Cain

James M. Cain

Born: July 1, 1892

Died: October 27, 1977 (aged 85)

Bio: James Mallahan Cain was an American author and journalist. Cain vehemently opposed labeling, but he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and is seen as one of the creators of the roman noir.

Known for:

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
Mildred Pierce (1941)
Double Indemnity (1943)
Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942)
Career in C Major: And Other Fiction (1945)

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