"I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and……" — 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."
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27 Quotes by John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald has 27 quotes on this site.
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Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
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Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your…
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You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is…
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Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way…
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Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly…
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If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in…
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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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It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in…
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I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you…
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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
— Lynda Barry
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
— Lance Bass
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
— Mayim Bialik
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