Quotes
Authors
John D. MacDonald

"Old friend, there are peopleâ€”young and oldâ€”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."

-- John D. MacDonald

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“It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.”
“Even when Iâ€™m in the dark Iâ€™m in the dark with you.”
“I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.”
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
“Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!”

Source : Said to William O. Chessman on March 27, 1936. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.
“But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.”

Source : Sophie Hannah (2009). “Little Face: Culver Valley Crime”, p.328, Hachette UK
“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”
“The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.”

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