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

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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.

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About James M. Cain

(July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is considered a progenitor of the school of American .

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Native Name: James Mallahan Cain
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Sit here, now, and look. The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty. So it is with Mexico. I hope you never forget it.

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