"The Archer novels are about various kinds of…" — Ross Macdonald
"The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness."
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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 Archer Quotes
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must…
— Aristotle
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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50…
— Zig Ziglar
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
— Eugen Herrigel
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In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the…
— Confucius
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They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape…
— Gautama Buddha
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the…
— Gautama Buddha
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Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the…
— Herodotus
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark,…
— Aristotle
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Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.
— Unknown Author
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Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always…
— Herodotus
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