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A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. — Lao-Tzu

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes. — Joseph Delaney

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action. — Thucydides

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis. — John Christopher

I bit her. I sunk my teeth into her lips so deep I could feel the blood spurt into my mouth. It was running down her neck when I carried her upstairs. — James M. Cain

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either — James M. Cain

They threw me off the haytruck about noon. — James M. Cain

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

I am the Ayatollah of rock 'n' rolla — Chris Jericho

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat. — Nora Roberts

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny. — James M. Cain

Time is the only critic. — James M. Cain

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual. — Piet Mondrian

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

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education. — Maya Angelou

The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away. — Donald Luskin

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

We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual. — James M. Cain

A guitar has moonlight in it. — James M. Cain

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's 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

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate. — James M. Cain

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

He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical. — James M. Cain

I write of the wish that comes true
for some reason, a terrifying thought. — 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

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

Nothing is more natural to me than horror. — Lon Chaney Jr.

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time. — John Christopher

Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths. — Virginia Postrel

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese. — Rowan Atkinson

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

Nothingness
... there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed ... — Muse

let's get stinko. — James M. Cain

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'. — Dexter Gordon

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake — James M. Cain

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill. — James M. Cain

A gun is like breath to a drowning man
it has to be drawn in haste. — James M. Cain