John D. MacDonald Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It was to have been a quiet evening at home. Home is the Busted Flush, 52-foot barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale.
the glue that seems to hold mankind in some kind of lasting stasis is everyone's desire to be useful.
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
It would be one kind of penance. And there are never enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for you, my friend.
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
Victims, he thought, were birds and animals and people who arrived at the wrong place at the wrong time, usually in too big a hurry.
In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.
Meyer's Law
Meyer's Law
And would not her fastidious litheness take away the heavy taste of the fleshy girls in the Citrus Inn? McGee, the Perfidious.
I just don't know. Maybe I'm good, but that goddamn scale would hesitate a long time before tilting that way.
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic.
That is the flaw in my personality. Vanity. And your flaw is sentimentality. They are the flaws which will inevitably kill us both.
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.
every day, not matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.
He tottered in. In a few moments he came out, hair piece in place. But the haggardness of his face made it look more spurious than before.
All the little gods of irony must whoop and weep and roll on the floors of Olympus when they tune in on the night thoughts of a truly fatuous male.
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.
In spite of the air conditioning, she had filled the lounge with a faint sharp-sweet odor of large overheated girl.
If there's no pain and no loss, it's only recreational and we can leave it to the minks. People have to be valued.
After I had chased the ghastliness of Fancha out of my mind, I settled down to some planning. A trip out to Leavenworth had a deceptive plausibility.