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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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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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My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while…
— Che Guevara
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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
— Mark Twain
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Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm…
— Zachary Quinto
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My genius is in my nostrils.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery,…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so…
— Veronica Roth
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I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted…
— John Green
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I've always wanted to be a back sleeper, but every time I've tried, my boobs plug my nostrils.
— Kelly Palmer
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