7 Quotes & Sayings By Ross Thomas

Ross Thomas was born in 1933 into a Southern family of doctors, lawyers and university professors. He attended the University of Georgia, where he studied journalism. Thomas began his writing career in 1954, when he won a UPI contest for "best unpublished story." He went on to win the National Magazine Award twice and to write for the New York Times Syndicate. He has written more than twenty novels, including The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Ross Thomas Murder Case, The Big Easy, Above Suspicion, Eight Million Ways to Die, The Big Tall Wishbone Mystery, and The Last Detective Read more

He also wrote an acclaimed biography of Ernest Hemingway.

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I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time. Ross Thomas
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Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for. Ross Thomas
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The eyes were large and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice. Ross Thomas
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The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice. Ross Thomas
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She was wearing a dark-red swimsuit consisting of two small triangles up above and a mere suggestion of something down below. If she took everything off, Dill thought, she would look a lot less naked. Ross Thomas
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The laugh came then, a marvelous honking hoorah so infectious that Dill felt it should be quarantined. Ross Thomas