"The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake."

--

Source : Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.233, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Ross Macdonald

#Rattlesnakes Quotes #Frightened Quotes #Sensitivity Quotes

“When people have problems with their mortgages and jobs many feel they're a failure, they didn't work hard enough or speak well enough: It's their fault things are going so bad. When they see their bodies right there [at occupations], we have something profoundly in common.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.”
“We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.”

Source : Song: Soul On Ice
“The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.”

Source : Scott Heim (2008). “We Disappear: A Novel”, Harper Perennial
“It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.”

Source : Dan Flavin, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1999). “Dan Flavin: the architecture of light”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
“Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.”

Source : Eric C. Heins's CTA State Council Speech, www.cta.org. October 24, 2015.
“My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.”
“The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.”

You may also like:

Dashiell Hammett
Author
James M. Cain
Author
John D. MacDonald
Writer
Margaret Millar
Writer
Mickey Spillane
Author
Raymond Chandler
Novelist
Rex Stout
Writer
Robert B. Parker
Crime writer
Sue Grafton
Author