Bridges Quote by John D. MacDonald

“We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.”

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“Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.”

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...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how…

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“Ask for two, and they give you the third free.”

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“It was to have been a quiet evening at home.”

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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 what some other damn…

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You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we…

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“Victims, he thought, were birds and animals and people who arrived at the wrong place at the wrong time, usually in too big a…

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The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a…

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I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what…

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[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

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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 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…

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Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and…

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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

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Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say…

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In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things…

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My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all…

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The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,…

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The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For…

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When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you…

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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge…

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Al Pacino and Jeff Bridges do it for me in a big way.

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Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

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Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken…

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Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is…

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