Jim Thompson

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1906 age 0

   Born

2. 1956 age 50

   CreditThe Killingscreenwriter

3. 1957 age 51

   CreditPaths of Gloryscreenwriter

4. 1977 age 70

   Died

• SKStanley Kubrick2 titles
• JTJoe Turkel2 titles
• JHJames B. Harris2 titles
• GFGerald Fried2 titles
• TCTimothy Carey2 titles
• SHSterling Hayden1 title
• FFFranklyn Farnum1 title
• TVTito Vuolo1 title
• KDKirk Douglas1 title
• CWCalder Willingham1 title

• What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

  Jim Thompson (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• Sure there’s a hell... It is the drab desert where the sun sheds neither warmth nor light and Habit force-feeds senile Desire. It is the place here mortal Want dwells with immortal Necessity, and the night becomes hideous with the groans of one and the ecstatic shrieks of the other. Yes, there is a hell, my boy, and you do not have to dig for it.

  Jim Thompson (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

  Jim Thompson (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• They had no hope of anything more, no comprehension that there might be anything more. In a sense they were an autonomous body, functioning within a society which was organized to grind them down. The law did not protect them; for them it was merely an instrument of harassment, a means of moving them on when it was against their interest to move, or detaining them where it was to their disadvantage to stay.

  Jim Thompson (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

  Jim Thompson (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• There was too much of a sameness about the evening’s delights. He had been the same route too many times. He’d been there before, so double-damned often, and however you traveled—backward, forward, or walking on your hands—you always got to the same place. You got nowhere, in other words, and each trip took a little more out of you.

  Jim Thompson (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0