John D. MacDonald Quotes

• La línea divisoria [entre amigos y conocidos] es la comunicación, creo. Un amigo es alguien a quien puedes decirle cualquier burrada que se te pase por la cabeza. Con los conocidos, siempre eres consciente de la imagen ligeramente irreal que tienen de ti y, para contentarlos, te adaptas a ellos. Muchos matrimonios son entre conocidos. Puedes estar con una persona tres horas de tu vida y tener un amigo. Otra seguirá siendo una conocida durante treinta años.

  John D. MacDonald

  Communication, Thinking, Years

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• La integridad no es una palabra condicional. No se la lleva el viento ni cambia con el tiempo. Es la imagen que tienes de ti misma, y si miras dentro y ves a un hombre que no te engaña, entonces sabes que nunca lo hará.

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  Cheating, Honesty, Integrity

  "The Turquoise Lament". Book by John D. MacDonald, November 1973.

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• 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.

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  Journey, Animal, People

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

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  Philosophy, Touching, World

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.5, Random House

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

  John D. MacDonald

  Friendship, Unforgivable, Avoiding

  "The Last One Left". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1967.

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

  John D. MacDonald

  Cards, Deck, Ifs

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• 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.

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  Self, Knowing, People

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

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  Sunset, Religion, Looks

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 4-6: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.251, Random House

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

  John D. MacDonald

  Writing, People, Purpose

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others

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  New York, Thinking, Two

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• Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

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  Music, Night, Self

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• 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.

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  Writing, Reality, Color

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• Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?

  John D. MacDonald

  Country, Passion, Gun

  "The Scarlet Ruse". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1973.

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• Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.

  John D. MacDonald

  Hurt, Hate, Kids

  JOHN D. MACDONALD (1971). “A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE”

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• A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

  John D. MacDonald

  Blindfolds, Standing There, Standing

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• Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.

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  War, White, Differences

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• Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.

  John D. MacDonald

  Integrity, Blow, Wind

  "The Turquoise Lament". Interview with John D. MacDonald, 1973.

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

  John D. MacDonald

  Thinking, Done, Logic

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• No se trataba de una niña bonita, tímidamente coqueta, delicadamente estimulada. Se trataba de la hembra madura de la especie, viva, atractiva y fuerte, que exigía que toda la vida que llevaba dentro fuera correspondida. Su instinto detectaría cualquier evasiva, cualquier deshonestidad, cualquier respuesta que no fuera completa, y entonces se iría para siempre.

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  Girl, Strong, Hedging

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

  John D. MacDonald

  Mean, Adults, Action

  John D. MacDonald (1985). “Five complete Travis McGee novels”, Outlet

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• A veces parece como si disponer no tener ningún tipo de compromiso con nadie fuera una libertad especial. Pero, de hecho, la idea funciona a la inversa. El compromiso más mortal de todos es comprometerse sólo con uno mismo. Algunos se dan cuenta de esto cuando ya están en la residencia de ancianos.

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  Relationship, Home, Commitment

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• The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

  John D. MacDonald

  Heterosexuality, Prison, Cures

  John D. MacDonald (1987). “The Long Lavender Look”, Fawcett

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

  John D. MacDonald

  Girl, Giving Up, Night

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• A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

  John D. MacDonald

  Men, Cards, Credit

  John D MacDonald (2013). “The Deep Blue Goodbye: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.61, Random House

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• I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

  John D. MacDonald

  Glitter, Maintaining, Structure

  John D MacDonald (1985). “Deep Blue Goodbye”, Fawcett

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