James Cain Quotes
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James Cain Quotes & Sayings
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They threw me off the haytruck about noon.
— James M. Cain
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it
— Curtis Jackson
New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
— James M. Cain
I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church.
— James M. Cain
The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.
— James M. Cain
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
— Bill Callahan
Under those blue pajamas was a shape to set a man nuts ...
— James M. Cain
let's get stinko.
— James M. Cain
The one significant change is in fact the second significant change
— Jonathan Pearce
You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.
— James M. Cain
A guitar has moonlight in it.
— James M. Cain
Time is the only critic.
— James M. Cain
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.
— James M. Cain
Never take the mistress if you can get the maid.
— James M. Cain
If you have to do it, you can do it.
— James M. Cain
A smile is nature's freeway: it has lanes, and you can go any speed you like, except you can't go back
— James M. Cain
I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake
— James M. Cain
That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.
— James M. Cain
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.
— James M. Cain
The disgusting face of things alone was not enough for writing a novel: without imagination it would seem not a true face but a mask.
— Elena Ferrante
He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical.
— James M. Cain
Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park ... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.
— Kenneth Adelman
A woman is a funny animal.
— James M. Cain
I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.
— James M. Cain
My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.
— Robin Williams
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.
— James M. Cain
Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
— Angelique Kidjo
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
— James M. Cain
Bite me. oh wait, you can't from way out there.- eve — Rachel Caine