Jim Thompson (writer) Quotes

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You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

Jim Thompson
I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

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The darkness and myself. Everything else was gone. And the little that was left of me was going, faster and faster.

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I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

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I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

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If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

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There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

Jim Thompson
You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

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I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

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I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

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Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

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You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

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