"The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake." — Ross Macdonald

"The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake."

— Ross Macdonald

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26 Quotes by Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.
I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to…
I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for…
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we…
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded…
As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older…
There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write…
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members…
An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the… — Diane Ackerman
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. — Max Beerbohm
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so… — Annie Besant
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings
People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate. — Frank Bruno
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the… — Alex Faickney Osborn
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow — William Shakespeare
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. — Albert Einstein
You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place… — Esther Hicks

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