Source : James M. Cain (2011). “Three by Cain: Serenade, Love's Lovely Counterfeit, The Butterfly”, p.119, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
James M. Cain“If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.”
“I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.”
Source : "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011. 
“My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one”
Source : Amy Plum (2016). “Inside the World of Die for Me”, p.26, HarperCollins
“This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.”
“If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.”
Billy Wilder
Filmmaker
Cornell Woolrich
Novelist
Dashiell Hammett
Author
Fred MacMurray
Actor
John Garfield
Actor
Michael Curtiz
Film director
Raymond Chandler
Novelist
Ross Macdonald
Writer
Todd Haynes
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