Ross MacDonald
Ross MacDonald
David Ross MacDonaldis a Canadian sailor. He began sailing at the age of 11...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 December 1915
CityLos Gatos, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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Losing Hidden Valley would be not a good thing. No question he's in a difficult position, certainly. We have an opportunity to address that situation through the regional master plan.
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An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
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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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I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
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The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.