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Ross Thomas Quotes

d. 1995 United States

Ross Thomas (February 19, 1926 in Oklahoma City – December 18, 1995 in Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of crime fiction.

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Eight-fifteen in the morning in Washington is not a happy time.

Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

Does she know all the people she says she knows?”
“She knows everybody.”
“Maybe that’s why she’s getting old.

Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

You can grieve when someone dies. But when someone is near death, and there is the chance that you might prevent it if you make the right decision, anxiety takes over.

Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

Never end a sentence with a preposition,” he recited.
“Not never; just seldom.

Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

Your countrymen, McCorkle, are seemingly indifferent to what happens in Africa.
Most of them don’t care about what happens here, as long as it happens on the next block.

Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ross Thomas (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.