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> [As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/as-we-struggle-with-shopping-lists-and-invitations-compounded-by/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

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> [Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/christmas-reminds-us-we-are-not-alone-we-are-not-unrelated-atoms/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

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## More by Donald E. Westlake

> [Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/science-fiction-is-a-weird-category-because-it-s-the-only-area-of/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [The other thing that I got back then - the Parker novels have never had much of anything to do with race. There have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/the-other-thing-that-i-got-back-then-the-parker-novels-have-never-had/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [I was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I wrote Westerns.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/i-was-writing-everything-i-grew-up-in-albany-new-york-and-i-was-never/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/new-york-doesn-t-exactly-have-neighborhoods-the-way-most-cities-do/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [“In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/in-the-cab-going-downtown-doug-believed-he-now-understood-the/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/what-did-jesus-christ-say-to-the-teamsters-do-nothing-till-i-get-back/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [“Since he’d been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he’d never known the need to suppress his feelings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/since-he-d-been-born-rich-into-a-family-that-had-been-a-long-time/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [“Well, you might not think it to look at me,” Dortmunder told him, “but I got a family crest.” “Have you?” “Yeah. And it’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/well-you-might-not-think-it-to-look-at-me-dortmunder-told-him-but-i/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [“telling the jokes—was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/telling-the-jokes-was-the-setups-why-were-that-priest-that-rabbi-and/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [“Dortmunder followed Kelp as he carried the tray down along the bar past the regulars, where the third was now saying, “The idea of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/dortmunder-followed-kelp-as-he-carried-the-tray-down-along-the-bar/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/nothing-about-it-interested-me-or-about-anything-else-except-making/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/when-stark-isn-t-off-sulking-somewhere-or-whatever-he-s-doing-when-he/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [“There are no Territories to light out for, not in this century. It was no longer easy to become the new you. New or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/there-are-no-territories-to-light-out-for-not-in-this-century-it-was/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [“wish you would.” “Right. When I had the emerald again, I was in a cell. I guess they were afraid the rest of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/wish-you-would-right-when-i-had-the-emerald-again-i-was-in-a-cell-i/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

> [Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/seem-to-be-telling-this-but-really-telling-that-three-dimensional/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

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