"I am not suited to the role of……" — John D. MacDonald
"I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman."
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John D. MacDonald
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27 Quotes by John D. MacDonald
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Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
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Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always…
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When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your…
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The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human…
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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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