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“He hadn’t wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Doomsters

“She said surprisingly, in a voice as thin as a flute:
"Are you a good man?"
"I like to think so," but her candor stopped me. "No," I said, "I'm not. I keep trying, when I remember to, but it keeps getting tougher every year. Like trying to chin yourself with one hand. You can practice off and on all your life, and never make it.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Barbarous Coast

“Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
― Ross Macdonald, Black Money

“There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Drowning Pool