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Jim Thompson quotes: What else is there to do but laugh and joke ... how else can you bear up under the unbearable?

What else is there to do but laugh and joke ... how else can you bear up under the unbearable?

Jim Thompson quotes: If I wasn't a decent woman I'd heist a leg and pee in your ear until it washed out that stinking pile of crap you call brains.

If I wasn't a decent woman I'd heist a leg and pee in your ear until it washed out that stinking pile of crap you call brains.

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

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

Jim Thompson quotes: killer inside me

killer inside me

Jim Thompson quotes: There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

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

Jim Thompson quotes: He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.

He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.

Jim Thompson quotes: Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.

Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.

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

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 quotes: If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.

If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.

Jim Thompson quotes: 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.

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.

Jim Thompson quotes: I rode a streetcar to the edge of the city limits, then I started to walk, swinging the old thumb whenever I saw a car coming.

I rode a streetcar to the edge of the city limits, then I started to walk, swinging the old thumb whenever I saw a car coming.

Jim Thompson quotes: The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

Jim Thompson quotes: If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

Jim Thompson quotes: Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.

Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.

Jim Thompson quotes: It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

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

Jim Thompson quotes: There is only one plot - things are not what they seem.

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

Jim Thompson quotes: What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

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

Jim Thompson quotes: It had soaked in on him at last, the spot he was in. Soaked clear through a quart of booze until it hit him where he lived and rubbed the

It had soaked in on him at last, the spot he was in. Soaked clear through a quart of booze until it hit him where he lived and rubbed the place raw.

Jim Thompson quotes: The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

Jim Thompson quotes: 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.

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

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

Jim Thompson quotes: 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.

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 quotes: It's - it's always lightest j-just before the dark.

It's - it's always lightest j-just before the dark.

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

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

Jim Thompson quotes: 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 hug you to death.

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 hug you to death.

Jim Thompson quotes: A weed is a plant out of place.

A weed is a plant out of place.

Jim Thompson quotes: Existence and proof are inseparables. You have to have the second to have the first. I

Existence and proof are inseparables. You have to have the second to have the first. I

Jim Thompson quotes: That's what she keeps you around for, to diddle her fiddle. Because you're low-hung and she's high-strung!

That's what she keeps you around for, to diddle her fiddle. Because you're low-hung and she's high-strung!

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

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