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

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Death

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.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Justice Salvage Consultancy World

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.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Glitter Routine Society Structure

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

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Crime Fiction Great Opening Lines Mystery

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.--Meyer's Law

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Meyer Mystery The Busted Flush Travis Mcgee

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Curses Thinking Vulnerability

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Guard Treasure Value Woman

It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Crime Death

When you look at pictures of people you know are dead, there is something different about the eyes. As if they anticipated their particular fate.It is a visceral recognition. I told myself I was getting too fanciful and went to bed.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Death And Dying

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Introspection Tears Ugliness

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Commitment

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

~ John D. Macdonald

John D. Macdonald Integrity Man Yourself
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