| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 64677 |
| QUOTATION: | Murder’s never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later. And when two people are involved, it’s usually sooner.... Sometime, somewhere, they’ve got to meet. Their emotions are all kicked up. Whether it’s love or hate doesn’t matter. They can’t keep away from each other. They may think it’s twice as safe because there are two of them. But it isn’t twice as safe. It’s ten times twice as dangerous. They’ve committed a murder! And it’s not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They’re stuck with each other and they’ve got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it’s a one-way trip, and the last stop is the cemetery. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Billy Wilder (b. 1906) U.S. (Austrian born) film director, and Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), U.S. author, screenwriter. Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), Double Indemnity, to Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) (1944). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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