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“ 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. ”

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

~ John D. Macdonald

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

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

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

~ John D. Macdonald