Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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You 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 Thompson's Popular Quotes

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

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

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

- Jim Thompson

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

- 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.

- Jim Thompson

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

- 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.

- 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…

- Jim Thompson