"Night and gin and music-the right setting for……" — 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 self."
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27 Quotes by John D. MacDonald
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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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