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John D. MacDonald Quotes: "My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly."

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold."

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck."

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.




John D. MacDonald Quotes: "The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit."

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable."

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible."

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing."

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 Quotes: "It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants."

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset."

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.




John D. MacDonald Quotes: "All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up."

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see."

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge."

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment."

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness"

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee."

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own."

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman."

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "In the morning I'm often anti-semantic."

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable."

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies."

It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else."

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes."

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law"

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 Quotes: "It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting."

It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.



John D. MacDonald Quotes: "Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet."

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.