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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
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
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
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
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
A guitar has moonlight in it.
— 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
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
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
