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Ross MacDonald Quotes

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing Picture Quote #1

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people Picture Quote #1

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people Picture Quote #1

My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing Picture Quote #1

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year Picture Quote #1

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me Picture Quote #1

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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need Picture Quote #1

Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth Picture Quote #1

Money costs too much Picture Quote #1

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart Picture Quote #1

I have a secret passion for mercy... but justice is what keeps happening to people Picture Quote #1

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing Picture Quote #1

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I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves Picture Quote #1

How can a man help breaking the law when he don’t have money to live on? Picture Quote #1

You have a secret passion for justice. why don’t you admit it? I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people Picture Quote #1

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it Picture Quote #1

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions Picture Quote #1

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters Picture Quote #1

When there’s trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble Picture Quote #1

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete Picture Quote #1

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure Picture Quote #1

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I’ve been trying to turn it back into myth again Picture Quote #1

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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 trouble is that most of them are married Picture Quote #1

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An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing (Ross MacDonald Quotes) I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people. (Ross MacDonald Quotes) I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people. (Ross MacDonald Quotes) My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing (Ross MacDonald Quotes) There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year. (Ross MacDonald Quotes) My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. (Ross MacDonald Quotes) I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need (Ross MacDonald Quotes) Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth (Ross MacDonald Quotes) Money costs too much (Ross MacDonald Quotes) Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart (Ross MacDonald Quotes) I have a secret passion for mercy... but justice is what keeps happening to people (Ross MacDonald Quotes) An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing (Ross MacDonald Quotes) I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves (Ross MacDonald Quotes) How can a man help breaking the law when he don’t have money to live on? (Ross MacDonald Quotes) You have a secret passion for justice. why don’t you admit it? I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people (Ross MacDonald Quotes) I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it (Ross MacDonald Quotes) I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves (Ross MacDonald Quotes) 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 (Ross MacDonald Quotes) I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions (Ross MacDonald Quotes) The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters (Ross MacDonald Quotes) When there’s trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble (Ross MacDonald Quotes) We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete (Ross MacDonald Quotes) The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure (Ross MacDonald Quotes) Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I’ve been trying to turn it back into myth again (Ross MacDonald Quotes) As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married (Ross MacDonald Quotes)