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Ross Macdonald Quote: “Tourists and transients lived in hotels and motels along the waterfront. Behind them a belt of slums lay ten blocks deep, where the darker half of the population lived and died. On the other side of the tracks – the tracks were there – the business section wore its old Spanish facades like icing on a stale cake.”

51. “Tourists and transients lived in hotels and motels along the waterfront. Behind them a belt of slums lay ten blocks deep, where the darker half of the population lived and died. On the other side of the tracks – the tracks were there – the business section wore its old Spanish facades like icing on a stale cake.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.”

52. “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

Ross Macdonald Quote: “Don’t be silly,” he said uncertainly. “Now, what’s your problem? If you think you’re broke, I’m broker, ask my broker.”

53. “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

Ross Macdonald Quote: “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.”

54. “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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Ross Macdonald Quote: “I went through a living room crowded with overstuffed furniture in a green-and-white jungle design from which eyes seemed to watch me, down a short hallway past a pink satin bedroom which reminded me of the inside of a coffin in disarray, to the open door of a bathroom. Tom’s jacket lay across the threshold like the headless torso of a man, flattened by the passage of some enormous engine.”

55. “I went through a living room crowded with overstuffed furniture in a green-and-white jungle design from which eyes seemed to watch me, down a short hallway past a pink satin bedroom which reminded me of the inside of a coffin in disarray, to the open door of a bathroom. Tom’s jacket lay across the threshold like the headless torso of a man, flattened by the passage of some enormous engine.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “I opened the door of her car and helped her in. Her breast leaned against my shoulder heavily. I moved back. I preferred a less complicated kind of pillow, stuffed with feathers, not memories and frustrations.”

56. “I opened the door of her car and helped her in. Her breast leaned against my shoulder heavily. I moved back. I preferred a less complicated kind of pillow, stuffed with feathers, not memories and frustrations.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “She put her hands over her ears and made a monkey face. Even then, she couldn’t look ugly. She had such good bones, her skeleton would have been an ornament in any closet.”

57. “She put her hands over her ears and made a monkey face. Even then, she couldn’t look ugly. She had such good bones, her skeleton would have been an ornament in any closet.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “We merged our lonelinesses once again, in something less than love but sweeter than self. I didn’t get home to West Los Angeles after all.”

58. “We merged our lonelinesses once again, in something less than love but sweeter than self. I didn’t get home to West Los Angeles after all.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “He placed me in a straight chair against the wall, brought me an ashtray, sat at his desk with his back to the window. He was quick in movement, very still in repose. His bald scalp and watchful eyes made him resemble a lizard waiting for a fly to expose itself.”

59. “He placed me in a straight chair against the wall, brought me an ashtray, sat at his desk with his back to the window. He was quick in movement, very still in repose. His bald scalp and watchful eyes made him resemble a lizard waiting for a fly to expose itself.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “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.”

60. “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

Ross Macdonald Quote: “Embarrassment thickened in his throat like phlegm.”

61. “Embarrassment thickened in his throat like phlegm.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.”

62. “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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Ross Macdonald Quote: “He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice.”

63. “He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice.”

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Ross Macdonald Quote: “I wondered if we were doing him a favor. The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.”

64. “I wondered if we were doing him a favor. The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “If you can’t pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.”

65. “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

Ross Macdonald Quote: “The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks was fixed and forced. I’d seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that I was going to grow old and die.”

66. “The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks was fixed and forced. I’d seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that I was going to grow old and die.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “For answer, he threw off the covers, swung his legs over the edge of the high bed, reached for the floor with his bare feet, and stood up tottering. Then he fell forward onto his knees, his head swinging loose, slack as a killed buck.”

67. “For answer, he threw off the covers, swung his legs over the edge of the high bed, reached for the floor with his bare feet, and stood up tottering. Then he fell forward onto his knees, his head swinging loose, slack as a killed buck.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “He wouldn’t look at me. He stood against the wall, trying to merge with the wall.”

68. “He wouldn’t look at me. He stood against the wall, trying to merge with the wall.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “The second building was enormous. Its central corridor looked long enough to stage a hundred-yard-dash in. I contemplated making one. Ever since the Army, big institutions depressed me: channels, red tape, protocol, buck-passing, hurry up and wait. Only now and then you met a man with enough gumption to keep the big machine from bogging down of its own weight.”

69. “The second building was enormous. Its central corridor looked long enough to stage a hundred-yard-dash in. I contemplated making one. Ever since the Army, big institutions depressed me: channels, red tape, protocol, buck-passing, hurry up and wait. Only now and then you met a man with enough gumption to keep the big machine from bogging down of its own weight.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “A few languid clouds moved inland over our heads. A little high plane was gamboling among them like a terrier in a henyard.”

70. “A few languid clouds moved inland over our heads. A little high plane was gamboling among them like a terrier in a henyard.”

— Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald Quote: “Trying to get information out of a Los Angeles lawyer was like opening a can of sardines without a key.”

71. “Trying to get information out of a Los Angeles lawyer was like opening a can of sardines without a key.”

— Ross Macdonald

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