Quotes by Ross Macdonald - Page 1

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Bottom
Envy
Heart
Human Heart
Lying
Lies
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An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Gun
Terrible
Ugly
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An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Gun
Terrible Thing
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
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Frightened
Rattlesnakes
Sensitivity
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The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
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Archer
Kind
Novel
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How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Breaking
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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Funny
Ocean
California
Humorous
Powerful
Witty
Rise
Cure
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I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
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Generosity
Ran
Drunks
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I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.
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Justice
Passion
People
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I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Ahead
Reached
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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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Book
Language
Wall
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I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.
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Bird
Hurt
Moving
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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Book
Past
Wall
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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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Bottom
Childhood
Sea
Youth
Confront
Corpse
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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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Influence
Made
Myth
Psychiatry
Trying
Me Trying Back
Freud
Influences
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Running
Detectives
Structure
Surprise
Tragic
Vibrations
Backward
Detective
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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.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Car
Games
Oil
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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.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Getting Older
Likes
Good Women Man
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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.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Men
Getting Older
Likes
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There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.
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Different
Letters
Members
Towns
Writing
Years
Once A Year
Whose
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I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.
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Giving
Hands
Littles
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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 of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
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Allowance
Members
Trouble
Allowances
Member
Tends
Weakest
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As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
Machines
Perpetual
Upstairs
Absorb
Shop
Poker
Slot
Stood
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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.
Ross Macdonald / Writer
People
Responsibility
Thinking
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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.
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Contemporary
Contemporary Society
Life And Death
Needs
Rope
Writing
Collins
Graham
Seemed
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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 / Writer
Broken
Caught
Concrete
Deeper
Fingerprints
Locks
Rooms
Wet
Wish
Work Way More
Bugged
Burglar
Clues
Craft
Drop
Writers
Footprints
More And More
Secretly
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.
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Memories
Moving
Sea
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