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?
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.
- 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
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold. - John D. Macdonald
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.
[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.
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…
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…
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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