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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
— Amelia Barr
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We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
— James Anthony Froude
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.
— Ingrid Bergman
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Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to…
— Alfred Binet
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The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.
— Tavis Smiley
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When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean…
— Bokar Rinpoche
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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may…
— Robert Redford
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I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People…
— Drake
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Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own…
— Bruce Schneier
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