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

— Ross Macdonald The Moving Target (1949)

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

Sleeping Beauty (1973)

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

The Way Some People Die (1951)

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

The Way Some People Die (1951)

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

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.

The Goodbye Look (1969)

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