John D. MacDonald

Novelist

1916-07-24

Quotes by John D. MacDonald

• 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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