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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.
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There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.
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The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.
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The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.
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At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.
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He gave me an appealing look, which fell with a thud between us:
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His eyes held the confident vacancy that comes from the exercise of other people's power.
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dozed off with my consciousness slightly ajar.
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Even with tear gas, tommy guns and a police cordon, there is no way to take a desperate man without risking your life.
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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 can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.
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I could smell fog even at this level now. It was rolling down from the mountains, flooding out the moon, as well as rising from the sea. The
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He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice.
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A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.
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Don't be silly," he said uncertainly. "Now, what's your problem? If you think you're broke, I'm broker, ask my broker.
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The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.
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A thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.
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I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.
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He made a production out of answering her, marching around to her side of the car, carrying his belly in front of him like a gift.
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In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.
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The fire bit into my legs like a rabid fox.
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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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I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.
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Hate is usually a more compelling motive than love,
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Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
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My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
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Some of us start out whole and stay that way.Some need a spare part or two.
Henry - he was a bits-and-pieces kind of guy — Ross Macdonald
She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to.
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She held her shoulders straighter, and her breasts were bold.
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Jerkiness isn't as respectable as it used to be, not even in L.A. Which is why they had to build Vegas.
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The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
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If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.
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his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.
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As if by behaving modestly and discreetly they could make the fire stay up on the mountain and die there, like an unwanted god.
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Crimes often come in pairs.
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Anton was in his office, short and wide behind the desk in a gabardine suit the color of lemon ice cream. His face was sunlamp brown.
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I'm a sharpshooter. I still don't like to kill a man. It's too damn easy to wipe one out and too damn hard to grow one.
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All you men still have the Victorian hangover. I suppose you think woman's place is in the home, too?" "Not my home. — Ross Macdonald
Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces.
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innocent, as if they perceived only pre-selected facts.
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Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.
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Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.
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Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.
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Embarrassment thickened in his throat like phlegm.
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Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.
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The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks,
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A moon like a fallen fruit reversing gravity was hoisting itself above the rooftops.
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He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.
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Money costs too much.
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daughter?' 'She was a beautiful child.' Mrs Williams's eyes grew misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress.
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An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.
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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
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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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An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
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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.
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What brings you up to the City? he said when we were inside. To San Franciscans, there's only one city.
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
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You notice things.""A sexburger like her I notice." The tip of his tongue protruded between his teeth, which were a good grade of plastic. — Ross Macdonald
Mrs. Gley came down in a rush. She had on a kind of tea gown whose draperies flew out behind her, like the tail of a blowzy comet.
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Now take it easy. This is a gun I have at your back. Don't you feel it?"I felt it. I took it easy. — Ross Macdonald
The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances.
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I like the sun.""Do you really? I didn't think you'd go in for simple things like sun. You're the neon type, aren't you?"
"If you say so. — Ross Macdonald
A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.
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No more guns for you.
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The sun, heavy and red, was almost down on the horizon now. Its image floated like spilled fire on the water. The
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There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
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