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> [“Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/like-other-self-educated-men-he-was-vain-of-his-vocabulary/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

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## More by Ross MacDonald

> [Money costs too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/money-costs-too-much/)

[Ross MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/the-sea-was-surging-among-the-pilings-like-the-blithe-mindless-forces/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/i-knew-how-it-was-with-drunks-they-ran-out-of-generosity-even-for/)

[Ross MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [“She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/she-didn-t-look-like-any-motel-manager-i-had-ever-seen-more-likely-an/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/in-wine-was-truth-perhaps-but-in-whisky-the-way-hoffman-sluiced-it/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [“...a thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/a-thin-woman-about-fifty-with-a-face-like-a-silver-hatchet/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [“A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/a-cockroach-stepped-out-from-behind-the-ketchup-gave-me-a-quick/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [“No more guns for you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/no-more-guns-for-you/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/i-have-a-secret-passion-for-mercy-but-justice-is-what-keeps-happening/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [“I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/i-found-myself-wishing-that-we-could-live-like-the-birds-and-move/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/an-ugly-woman-with-a-gun-is-a-terrible-thing/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/i-like-a-little-danger-tame-danger-controlled-by-me-it-gives-me-a/)

[Ross Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/i-had-reached-the-point-when-i-could-not-see-anything-clearly-ahead-i/)

[Ross MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/how-can-a-man-help-breaking-the-law-when-he-don-t-have-money-to-live/)

[Ross MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-macdonald/)

> [The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-macdonald/the-smell-of-the-sea-of-kelp-and-fish-and-bitter-moving-water-rose/)

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