Jim Thompson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Men #Laughing #Dead Man
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

#Baby #Kissing #Long
There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
-- Jim Thompson

#Goes On #Want #Forgotten
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and Iâ€™ve used every one, but there is only one plot â€“ things are not as they seem.
-- Jim Thompson

#Writing #Two #Way
A weed is a plant out of place.
-- Jim Thompson

#Weed #Plant
If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when weâ€™ve got the least excuse for it.
-- Jim Thompson

#Mistake #People #Want
I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.
-- Jim Thompson

#Nice #Hands #Two
What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.
-- Jim Thompson

#Smell #May #Stink
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

#Nice #People #Trying
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.
-- Jim Thompson

#Mean #Kids #Fighting
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

#Forever #Alligators #Inches
If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.
-- Jim Thompson

#Paper #Toilets #Wanted
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

#Liars #Hug #Polite

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