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

James M. Cain

Mots clés fear mistakes

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If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either

James M. Cain

Mots clés writing-craft james-m-cain

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Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

James M. Cain

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The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

James M. Cain

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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

Mots clés money women murder noir hardboiled

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I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

James M. Cain

Mots clés love noir hardboiled

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A woman is a funny animal.

James M. Cain

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...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman have one. It is a genital process, and all of its stages are intra-abdominal;

James M. Cain

Mots clés writing writers writers-on-writing writing-a-book

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En realidad, lo único que quise en este mundo fue a ella. Pero eso es bastante. No creo que muchas mujeres consigan ni siquiera eso.

James M. Cain

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She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.

James M. Cain

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