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John D. MacDonald Quotes

John D. MacDonald quotes

Novelist July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986

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This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good. John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald quote: "Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the..."
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald quote: "We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody..."
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. John D. MacDonald
Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me. —Travis McGee John D. MacDonald
At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home. John D. MacDonald
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. John D. MacDonald
...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake. John D. MacDonald
It can happen to anybody, getting all hung up on some twenty-year-old quiff. Like the little dog in the freight yard, and the train nips off the end of his tail and he yelps and spins around and it cuts off his head. Never lose your head over a piece of tail. John D. MacDonald
Bugs would eat the wax. Chaw the old canvas. And one day there will be a mutation, and we will have new ones that can digest concrete, dissolve steel and suck up the acid puddles, fatten on magic plastics, lick their slow way through glass. Then the cities will tumble and man will be chased back into the sea from which he came... John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald quote: "When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person,..."
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. 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
John D. MacDonald quote: "[Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city..."
[Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city... John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald quote: "A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself."
A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself. John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald quote: "Being an adult means accepting those situations where no..."
Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible. John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald quote: "Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not..."
Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet. John D. MacDonald

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