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James Mallahan Cain was an American author and journalist. Cain vehemently opposed labeling, but he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and is seen as one of the creators of the roman noir. Several of his crime novels inspired successful movies.



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✵ 1. July 1892 – 27. October 1977
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Works

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity
James M. Cain
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce
James M. Cain
James M. Cain: 8 quotes5 likes

Famous James M. Cain Quotes

“If you have to do it, you can do it.”

James M. Cain book Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”

James M. Cain book The Postman Always Rings Twice

Source: The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”

James M. Cain book The Postman Always Rings Twice

Source: The Postman Always Rings Twice

“I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake”

James M. Cain book Double Indemnity

Source: Double Indemnity

“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.”

James M. Cain book Double Indemnity

Source: Double Indemnity

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