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A receptionist is a lazy dame that can’t do anything on earth, and wants to sit out front where everybody can watch her do it.

— James M. Cain Mildred Pierce (1941)

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Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing his car, that’s larceny.

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)

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

Double Indemnity (1936)

He might be asleep, but even asleep he looked like he knew more than most guys awake.

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake.

Double Indemnity (1936)

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

Mildred Pierce (1941)

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