“Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.” — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions. — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to… — Jim Thompson Denial Copy Share Image
I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't… — Jim Thompson Baby Copy Share Image
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.” — Jim Thompson Mind Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Thompson Death Copy Share Image
If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“It had soaked in on him at last, the spot he was in. Soaked clear through a quart of booze until it… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and… — Jim Thompson Breaking apart Copy Share Image
“He was part of this river of cars, aiding its sluggish tide and in turn aided by it. Without losing his identity,… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“you might think it wasn't real nice to kick a dying man, and maybe it wasn't, but I'd been wanting to kick… — Jim Thompson Death Copy Share Image
“Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case… — Jim Thompson Crime Copy Share Image
“Usually, during the past fifteen-odd years, I'd hated to see the morning come. That's a psychotic symptom, you know, not wanting to… — Jim Thompson Morning Copy Share Image
“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And… — Jim Thompson Identity Copy Share Image
I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“How to make her run? No problem there. For a fearful shadow lies constantly over the residents of Uneasy Street. It casts… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“People looking for easy answers to big problems. People that blame the Jews or colored folks for all the bad things that… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was too much of a sameness about the evening’s delights. He had been the same route too many times. He’d been… — Jim Thompson Sameness Copy Share Image
“Flight is many things. Something clean and swift, like a bird skimming across the sky. Or something filthy and crawling; a series… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“He was staring off across the long broad fields, raising his eyes above the red clay soil to the horizon, looking across… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“He picked her up and tossed her on the bed. They had a hell of a time. But afterward, after she had… — Jim Thompson Depression Copy Share Image
“Strolling down a white-graveled walk to the cliff above the ocean, he let his eyes rove aimlessly over the expanse of sea… — Jim Thompson Desolation Copy Share Image
When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion. — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. — Jim Thompson Inflation Copy Share Image
“if I wasn't a decent woman I'd heist a leg and pee in your ear until it washed out that stinking pile… — Jim Thompson Decent woman Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?” — Jim Thompson Comedy Copy Share Image
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