"We're all in the game. We all drive……" — Ross Macdonald
"We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff."
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26 Quotes by Ross Macdonald
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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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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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An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.
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