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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've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I…
— Alan Alda
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I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
— Ben Hogan
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To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake…
— Alistair Cooke
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If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
— Herman Melville
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I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.
— Joe Teti
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I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we…
— Joe Teti
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
— Ross Macdonald
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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
— Elizabeth Moon
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Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.
— Claude Osteen
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I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.
— Ron Rash
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My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there,…
— Jim Fowler
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