You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit … - Ross Macdonald

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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

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Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983), who wrote under the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction.

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Alternative Names: Kenneth Millar • John Macdonald • John Ross Macdonald

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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.

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

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

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