“Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”
Ross Macdonald book The Drowning Pool
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Source: The Drowning Pool
“There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
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