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Ross Macdonald, seudónimo de Kenneth Millar , fue un escritor estadounidense-canadiense de novela negra, célebre por haber creado el personaje del detective privado Lew Archer. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. diciembre 1915 – 11. julio 1983  •  Otros nombres راس مک‌دانلد
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Ross Macdonald: Frases en inglés

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

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Ross Macdonald

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

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Ross Macdonald libro The Drowning Pool

The Moving Target (1949)
Fuente: The Drowning Pool

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

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“The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.”

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Ross Macdonald libro The Way Some People Die

The Way Some People Die (1951)

“"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."”

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Ross Macdonald

The Goodbye Look (1969)

“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.”

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Ross Macdonald libro The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool (1952)

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

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Ross Macdonald libro The Way Some People Die

The Way Some People Die (1951)

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

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Ross Macdonald libro Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (1973)

“Money costs too much.”

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Ross Macdonald

The Goodbye Look (1969)

“When your income passes a certain point you lose touch. All of a sudden the other people look like geeks or gooks, expendables.”

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Ross Macdonald

The Goodbye Look (1969)

“The moral beatings that people took from their children, I was thinking, were the hardest to endure and the hardest to escape.”

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Ross Macdonald

The Goodbye Look (1969)

“Deep feeling sounded in her voice. I had no doubt that the feeling was partly sincere. Still, there was something unreal about it. I suspected that she'd been playing tricks with her emotions for a long time, until none of them was quite valid.”

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Ross Macdonald libro The Galton Case

The Galton Case (1959)