"A home is not a museum. It doesn't……" — James M. Cain
"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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23 Quotes by James M. Cain
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Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and…
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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually…
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When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have…
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New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
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If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the…
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Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
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A guitar has moonlight in it.
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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually…
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O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on…
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They threw me off the haytruck about noon.
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I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
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Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.
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