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Then he laughed and she laughe...

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

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There are things that have to ...

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

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

I kissed her, a long hard kiss...

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.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

There is only one plot-things ...

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

If we all had what we wanted t...

If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

You go into the office and tak...

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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When life attains a crisis, ma...

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. [ ] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

I'd been chasing females all m...

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.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

Dad always said that he had en...

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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A weed is a plant out of place...

A weed is a plant out of place.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

You can't stamp on a man's cor...

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

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

I found out long ago that the ...

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

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

You've got forever; and someho...

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.

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It doesn't matter what answers...

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

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We're living in a funny world ...

We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's abou

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I told her the world was full ...

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.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

There are thirty-two ways to w...

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I've used every one, but there is only one plot Ђ' things are not as they seem.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

What smells good in the store ...

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

Jim Thompson 22 quotes

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