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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
the glue that seems to hold mankind in some kind of lasting stasis is everyone's desire to be useful.
— 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
The breakfast was rather silent, but not with strain.
— John D. MacDonald
If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.
— John D. MacDonald
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.
— John D. 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
summertime." "I remember it well.
— 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
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— John D. MacDonald
Never leave anything which can be traced, when you do have a choice.
— John D. MacDonald
For once her new placidity was impaired.
— John D. MacDonald
Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
— John D. MacDonald
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
— John D. MacDonald
It is a practical world, Mr. Owen, and we have to do practical things.
— John D. 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
For the expendable marriage, you give the expendable gift.
— John D. MacDonald
A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.
— John D. MacDonald
Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.
— John D. MacDonald
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
The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly.
— John D. MacDonald
And would not her fastidious litheness take away the heavy taste of the fleshy girls in the Citrus Inn? McGee, the Perfidious.
— 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
She trudged along, dutiful as a naughty child.
— John D. MacDonald
She went inside and watched him walk back toward sixteen,
— John D. MacDonald
In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.
— John D. MacDonald
The early bird who gets the worm works for somebody who comes in late and owns the worm farm.
— 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
For perhaps the first time in my life I appreciated the corrosive effects of total uncertainty.
— John D. MacDonald
if you are too unusual, you may turn into a collector's item.
— John D. MacDonald
Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic.
— John D. MacDonald
never sit in the first row at the ballet.
— John D. MacDonald
A fallow mind is a field of discontent.
— John H. Cunningham
The rain had washed the sunset time to a lambent beauty.
— 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
That is the flaw in my personality. Vanity. And your flaw is sentimentality. They are the flaws which will inevitably kill us both.
— John D. MacDonald
Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.
— John D. MacDonald
In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.Meyer's Law — John D. MacDonald
A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.
— 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 nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.
— John D. MacDonald
The world is full of damp rocks, with some very strange creatures hiding under them.
— 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
People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness
— John D. MacDonald
All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.
— John D. 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
Cathy introduced us. Christine stood there inside her smooth skin, warm and indolent, mildly speculative.
— John D. MacDonald
Ask for two, and they give you the third free.
— 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
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
— 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
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.
— John D. MacDonald
Nothing goes on forever. And if you stay patient, problems tend to go away in time.
— John D. MacDonald
The sun was visible from Florida, but it hadn't gotten to me.
— John D. MacDonald
Waves can wash away the most stubborn stains, and the stars do not care one way or the other.
— John D. MacDonald
Walk very lightly and carefully, Wade. Look behind every bush.
— John D. MacDonald
