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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

- Ross MacDonald
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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

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

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

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.