Quotes by Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson

A weed is a plant out of place.

Plant

Weed

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

Dad

Mind

Reading

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.

Hug

Liars

Polite

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

Found

Law

Long Ago

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.

Baby

Kissing

Long

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain’t a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you’re supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain’t so strange after all. Maybe it’s like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they’re holding heaven in their hands.

Hair

Hands

Nice

I told her the world was full of nice people. I’d have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

Nice

People

Trying

I’d been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever’s got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

Female

Mind

Teeth

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

Mistake

People

Want

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we’d crap too much. We’d have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

Paper

Toilets

Wanted

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Alligators

Answers

Asks

Baby

Book

Cutting

Dad

Dead Man

Feet

Female

Fighting

Focus

Forever

Forgotten

Found

Girl

Goes On

Hair

Hands

Hug

Ideas

Inches

Jobs

Kids

Kissing

Laughing

Law

Liars

Long

Long Ago

Matter

May

Mean

Men

Mind

Mistake

Nice

Paper

People

Plant

Plot

Polite

Reading

Running

Smell

Stink

Teeth

Things Are Not What They Seem

Toilets

Trying

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Quotes by Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson

A weed is a plant out of place.

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.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

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.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I’d have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

I’d been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever’s got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we’d crap too much. We’d have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

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