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I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn’t have the money and I didn’t have the woman.

— James M. Cain Double Indemnity (1936)

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

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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.

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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.

Mildred Pierce (1941)

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake.

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