Jim Thompson Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.
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.
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.
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.
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
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.
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.
The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.
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.
When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. [ ... ] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.
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.
Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.
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.
That's what she keeps you around for, to diddle her fiddle. Because you're low-hung and she's high-strung!