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.
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. - John D. Macdonald
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
- John D. Macdonald
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. - John D. Macdonald
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold. - John D. Macdonald
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.
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 humo… - 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 humo…
If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck. - John D. Macdonald
If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. - John D. Macdonald
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
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
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.
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 sel… - John D. Macdonald
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 sel…
The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enter… - John D. Macdonald
The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enter…
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