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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. 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: There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty. There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers. The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one. The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.
Ross Macdonald quotes: She touched his shoulder, very lightly, like a child fingering a forbidden object. She touched his shoulder, very lightly, like a child fingering a forbidden object.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Vallon was said to have a Puritan conscience but I had never met his conscience. Vallon was said to have a Puritan conscience but I had never met his conscience.
Ross Macdonald quotes: At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy. At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.
Ross Macdonald quotes: He gave me an appealing look, which fell with a thud between us: He gave me an appealing look, which fell with a thud between us:
Ross Macdonald quotes: His eyes held the confident vacancy that comes from the exercise of other people's power. His eyes held the confident vacancy that comes from the exercise of other people's power.
Ross Macdonald quotes: dozed off with my consciousness slightly ajar. dozed off with my consciousness slightly ajar.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Even with tear gas, tommy guns and a police cordon, there is no way to take a desperate man without risking your life. Even with tear gas, tommy guns and a police cordon, there is no way to take a desperate man without risking your life.
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. 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 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 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
Ross Macdonald quotes: He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice. He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice.
Ross Macdonald quotes: He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage. He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage.
Ross Macdonald quotes: A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything. A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Don't be silly," he said uncertainly. "Now, what's your problem? If you think you're broke, I'm broker, ask my broker. Don't be silly," he said uncertainly. "Now, what's your problem? If you think you're broke, I'm broker, ask my broker.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution. The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.
Ross Macdonald quotes: A thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet. A thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.
Ross Macdonald quotes: How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on? How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?
Ross Macdonald quotes: I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves. I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.
Ross Macdonald quotes: 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. 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.
Ross Macdonald quotes: In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs. In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The fire bit into my legs like a rabid fox. The fire bit into my legs like a rabid fox.
Ross Macdonald quotes: I'm sick of always doing the professional thing for prudential reasons.' I I'm sick of always doing the professional thing for prudential reasons.' I
Ross Macdonald quotes: The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Ross Macdonald quotes: I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it. I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Hate is usually a more compelling motive than love, Hate is usually a more compelling motive than love,
Ross Macdonald quotes: Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart. Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
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. 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: 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 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 quotes: She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to. She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to.
Ross Macdonald quotes: She held her shoulders straighter, and her breasts were bold. She held her shoulders straighter, and her breasts were bold.
Ross Macdonald quotes: He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man. He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Jerkiness isn't as respectable as it used to be, not even in L.A. Which is why they had to build Vegas. Jerkiness isn't as respectable as it used to be, not even in L.A. Which is why they had to build Vegas.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness. The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
Ross Macdonald quotes: If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole. If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.
Ross Macdonald quotes: his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery. his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.
Ross Macdonald quotes: As if by behaving modestly and discreetly they could make the fire stay up on the mountain and die there, like an unwanted god. As if by behaving modestly and discreetly they could make the fire stay up on the mountain and die there, like an unwanted god.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Crimes often come in pairs. Crimes often come in pairs.
Ross Macdonald quotes: 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. 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.
Ross Macdonald quotes: 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. 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.
Ross Macdonald quotes: All you men still have the Victorian hangover. I suppose you think woman's place is in the home, too?" "Not my home. 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 quotes: He wouldn't look at me. He stood against the wall, trying to merge with the wall. He wouldn't look at me. He stood against the wall, trying to merge with the wall.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces. Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces.
Ross Macdonald quotes: innocent, as if they perceived only pre-selected facts. innocent, as if they perceived only pre-selected facts.
Ross Macdonald quotes: No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly. No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence. Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born. Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary. Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Embarrassment thickened in his throat like phlegm. Embarrassment thickened in his throat like phlegm.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms. Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring. Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks, The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks,
Ross Macdonald quotes: A moon like a fallen fruit reversing gravity was hoisting itself above the rooftops. A moon like a fallen fruit reversing gravity was hoisting itself above the rooftops.
Ross Macdonald quotes: I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
Ross Macdonald quotes: He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me. He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Money costs too much. Money costs too much.
Ross Macdonald quotes: daughter?' 'She was a beautiful child.' Mrs Williams's eyes grew misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress. daughter?' 'She was a beautiful child.' Mrs Williams's eyes grew misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress.
Ross Macdonald quotes: An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing. An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Ross Macdonald quotes: I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people. I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
Ross Macdonald quotes: An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing. An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
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. 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: What brings you up to the City? he said when we were inside. To San Franciscans, there's only one city. What brings you up to the City? he said when we were inside. To San Franciscans, there's only one city.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake. The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
Ross Macdonald quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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.
Ross Macdonald quotes: She folded her arms across her breasts and looked at me like a lioness. She folded her arms across her breasts and looked at me like a lioness.
Ross Macdonald quotes: My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing. My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.
Ross Macdonald quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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.
Ross Macdonald quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper. A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.
Ross Macdonald quotes: No more guns for you. No more guns for you.
Ross Macdonald quotes: The sun, heavy and red, was almost down on the horizon now. Its image floated like spilled fire on the water. The The sun, heavy and red, was almost down on the horizon now. Its image floated like spilled fire on the water. The
Ross Macdonald quotes: There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross Macdonald quotes: Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I learned that at my mother's knee and other low joints, Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I learned that at my mother's knee and other low joints,
Ross Macdonald quotes: Behind the semi-elliptical bar four cowboys who had never been near a cow sang western songs which sounded as if they had originated in the far east. Behind the semi-elliptical bar four cowboys who had never been near a cow sang western songs which sounded as if they had originated in the far east.

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