Top 38 James M Cain Quotes

#1. You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

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#2. There was something unnatural, a little unhealthy, about the way she inhaled Veda's smell as she dedicated the rest of her life to this child who had been spared.

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#3. let's get stinko.

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#4. Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Never take the mistress if you can get the maid.

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#7. A gun is like breath to a drowning man
it has to be drawn in haste.

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#8. Time is the only critic.

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#9. 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.

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#10. I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

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#11. Under those blue pajamas was a shape to set a man nuts ...

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#12. We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual.

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#13. You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.

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#14. A woman is a funny animal.

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#15. I went to the animals' fair, The birds and the beasts were there, The old baboon By the light of the moon Was combing his auburn hair; The monkey he got drunk, And fell on the elephant's trunk, The elephant sneezed And fell on his knees - And what became of the monkety-monk?

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

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#17. The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

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#18. Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

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#19. New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

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

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#21. A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

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#22. I write of the wish that comes true
for some reason, a terrifying thought.

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#23. 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.

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#24. I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church.

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#25. She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.
Postman always rings twice, James Cain.

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#26. I bit her. I sunk my teeth into her lips so deep I could feel the blood spurt into my mouth. It was running down her neck when I carried her upstairs.

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#27. He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical.

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#28. A smile is nature's freeway: it has lanes, and you can go any speed you like, except you can't go back

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#29. I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

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#30. By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out.

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#31. In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

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#32. A guitar has moonlight in it.

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#33. Tomorrow night, if I come back, there'll be kisses. Lovely ones, Frank. Not drunken kisses. Kisses with dreams in them. Kisses that come from life, not death.

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#34. Up close, she could see the sharp, cold, look that she constantly shot at Mr. Treviso, particularly when there was a break, and she was waiting to come in. It shattered illusion for Mildred. She preferred to remain at a distance, to enjoy this child as she seemed, rather than as she was.

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#35. I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

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#36. 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;

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#37. They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

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#38. If you have to do it, you can do it.

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