John D. MacDonald
Novelist
1916-07-24
Quotes by John D. MacDonald
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I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
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It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.
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Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.
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I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
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Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.
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It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.
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Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
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