"Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering……" — Jim Thompson
"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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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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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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I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her,…
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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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More Dead Quotes
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one of 6,667 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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