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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 The Killer Inside Me (1952)

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

The Killer Inside Me (1952)

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

The Killer Inside Me (1952)

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.

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

The Killer Inside Me (1952)

It’s easy as nailing your balls to a stump and falling off backwards.

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