Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.
Jim ThompsonStichwörter: noir
A weed is a plant out of place.
Jim ThompsonThen he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.
Jim ThompsonYou go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.
Jim ThompsonThere are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
Jim ThompsonI 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 ThompsonStichwörter: crime suspense thompson
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 ThompsonIt had soaked in on him at last, the spot he was in. Soaked clear through a quart of booze until it hit him where he lived and rubbed the place raw.
Jim ThompsonIf we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.
Jim ThompsonWe'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 ThompsonStichwörter: social-commentary monologue
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