"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."

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

John D. MacDonald

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“When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.”
“I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.”
“Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?”
“Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.”

Source : Guy de Maupassant (1996). “The Best Short Stories”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions
“I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.”
“I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.”

Source : "Happy Birthday Colin Firth! The Actor's Great Movie Moments" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. September 10, 2014.
“When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'”

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