Quotes by : Jim Thompson

He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose.....

I sat down in a booth, and the waitress shoved a menu in front of me. There wasn’t anything on it that....

Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which....

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And....

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life....

If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind....

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't....

Did you ever think much about jobs? I mean, some of the jobs people land in? You see a guy giving haircuts....

Her mind moved around and around the subject, moving with a kind of fuzzy firmness. With no coherent....

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked....