# Double Indemnity

- Author: [James M. Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/double-indemnity

## Quotes

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

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> "There’s a shark. Following the ship."I tried not to look, but couldn’t help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs."Walter, we’ll have to wait. Till the moon comes up.""I guess we better have a moon.""I want to see that fin. That black fin. Cutting the water in the moonlight."

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> "... Walter, the time has come.""What do you mean, Phyllis?""For me to meet my bridegroom. The only one I ever loved. One night I'll drop off the stern of the ship. Then, little by little I'll feel his icy fingers creeping into my heart."

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> I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake.

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> A woman is a funny animal.

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

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> I make no conscious effort to be tough, or , or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.

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> Under those blue pajamas was a shape to set a man nuts.

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