"It's no good telling somebody they're trying too……" — John D. MacDonald
"It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants."
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John D. MacDonald
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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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I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to…
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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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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 was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
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