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- "I hated Ireland, hated every piece of it, hated everything it stood for."—James M. Cain, of Irish Catholic heritage, after his 1938 visit to Ireland at the age of 46. (en)
- "Cain's admiration of Walter Lippmann as a man, a writer, and, most important of all, as a literary stylist at times bordered on hero worship, and he lists Lippmann, along with Mencken, Philip Goodman and screenwriter Vincent Laurence, as the men who had the greatest influence on his life."—Roy Hoopes in Cain (en)
- "I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, 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 logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort." (en)
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