"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."

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Source : Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Drowning Pool”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Ross Macdonald

#Funny Quotes #Witty Quotes #Powerful Quotes

“I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.”
“The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.”
“Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.400, Granta Books
“The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.”
“Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-caste treat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutually affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death.”

Source : Indian Journal of Social Development: An International Journal, Volume 7, 2007.
“I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."”

Source : Source: www.news-journalonline.com
“I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.”

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