"Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I……" — John D. MacDonald
"Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me."
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27 Quotes by John D. MacDonald
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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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