John A Macdonald Quotes
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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.
— John D. MacDonald
Anxious little smile that came and went - a mendicant
— John D. MacDonald
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
— John D. MacDonald
Politics is a game requiring great coolness.
— John A. Macdonald
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
— John D. MacDonald
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
— John D. MacDonald
Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
— John A. Macdonald
When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.
— John A. Macdonald
Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!
— John A. Macdonald
Never leave anything which can be traced, when you do have a choice.
— John D. MacDonald
It is a practical world, Mr. Owen, and we have to do practical things.
— John D. MacDonald
Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.
— John A. Macdonald
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.
— John D. MacDonald
A fallow mind is a field of discontent.
— John H. Cunningham
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.
— John D. MacDonald
A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.
— John D. MacDonald
I just don't know. Maybe I'm good, but that goddamn scale would hesitate a long time before tilting that way.
— John D. MacDonald
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[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
— John D. MacDonald
She trudged along, dutiful as a naughty child.
— John D. MacDonald
if you are too unusual, you may turn into a collector's item.
— John D. MacDonald
The rain had washed the sunset time to a lambent beauty.
— John D. MacDonald
Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.
— John A. Macdonald
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.
— John D. MacDonald
In spite of the air conditioning, she had filled the lounge with a faint sharp-sweet odor of large overheated girl.
— John D. MacDonald
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.
— John D. MacDonald
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.
— John D. MacDonald
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
— John A. Macdonald
every day, not matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.
— John D. MacDonald
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.
— John D. MacDonald
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.
— John D. MacDonald
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.
— John D. MacDonald
A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.
— John D. MacDonald
