"I knew how it was with drunks. They……" — Ross MacDonald
"I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves."
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26 Quotes by Ross MacDonald
Ross MacDonald has 26 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for…
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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…
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded…
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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older…
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There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write…
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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…
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
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More Drunks Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
— Charles Bukowski
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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks,…
— Mark Twain
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
— Norman Mailer
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Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
— Charles Bukowski
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They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work.…
— Lauren Bacall
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Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and…
— George Jones
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Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic…
— Charles Bukowski
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The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a…
— Shane MacGowan
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We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty’s job. We just love ’em, give…
— Phil Robertson
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I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison…
— Rumi
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What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking…
— Dylan Moran
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My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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