This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.
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.
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…
[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.
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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