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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 The Goodbye Look (1969)

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

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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

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

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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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