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.
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse. - Jim Thompson
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.
- Jim Thompson
When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion. - Jim Thompson
When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.
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
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.
There is only one plot-things are not what they seem. - Jim Thompson
There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.
There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. - Jim Thompson
There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
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
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.
It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions. - Jim Thompson
It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem. - Jim Thompson
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.
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 politician… - Jim Thompson
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 politician…
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