You’ve got no time at all, but it seems like you’ve got for… - Jim Thompson

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You’ve got no time at all, but it seems like you’ve got forever. You’ve got nothing to do, but it seems like you’ve got everything…You make coffee and smoke a few cigarettes; and the hands of the clock have gone crazy on you. They haven’t moved hardly, they’ve hardly budged out of the place you last saw them, but they’ve measured off a half? two-thirds? of your life. You’ve got forever, but that’s no time at all.

Jim Thompson

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James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American prose writer and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.

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Birth Name: James Myers Thompson

Alternative Names: James M. Thompson • James Meyers "Jim" Thompson

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