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Ross Macdonald has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
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I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.
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I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my…
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I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on…
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The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
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We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get…
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness…
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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The…
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There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other…
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
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When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the…
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun…
— Bernhard Goetz
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If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
— Robert Doisneau
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I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.
— Julie Murphy
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By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become…
— Clifton Fadiman
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I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those…
— Art Spiegelman
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People think I am unemotional because my voice is flat and a bit boring. It is unfortunate but it is just the…
— Andy Murray
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As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.
— John McGahern
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I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But…
— Dick Schaap
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His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving…
— Tahereh Mafi
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I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.
— Jim Abbott
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I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In…
— Bernard Hopkins
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