Ross Macdonald citáty

„Nepamatuje se. Má tu pohodlnou paměť, co muži mívají. Vymaže cokoliv, co nevyhovuje jeho bezúhonné představě o sobě samém.“

—  Ross Macdonald

„The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.“

—  Ross Macdonald

„Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.“

—  Ross Macdonald, kniha The Drowning Pool

The Moving Target (1949)
Zdroj: The Drowning Pool

„Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.“

—  Ross Macdonald

„No more guns for you.“

—  Ross Macdonald

„Money costs too much.“

—  Ross Macdonald

The Goodbye Look (1969)

„I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.“

—  Ross Macdonald, kniha Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (1973)

„The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.“

—  Ross Macdonald, kniha The Way Some People Die

The Way Some People Die (1951)

„Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.“

—  Ross Macdonald, kniha Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (1973)

„They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted.“

—  Ross Macdonald, kniha The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool (1952)

„"You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?"
"I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people."“

—  Ross Macdonald

The Goodbye Look (1969)

„An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.“

—  Ross Macdonald, kniha The Way Some People Die

The Way Some People Die (1951)