"I told her the world was full of……" — Jim Thompson
"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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13 Quotes by Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson has 13 quotes on this site.
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A weed is a plant out of place.
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Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh…
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There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
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I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way…
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If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.
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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…
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We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks…
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There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot –…
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What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.
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I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine.…
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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…
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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…
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness…
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
— Matthew Arnold
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am…
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into…
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art…
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
— Sai Baba
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in…
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with…
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