When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. John D. MacDonald More Quotes by John D. MacDonald More Quotes From John D. MacDonald If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing. John D. MacDonald glaciersgallopingwould-be We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. John D. MacDonald giving-upgirlnight All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up. John D. MacDonald logicdonethinking 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 fool tells him he's going to see. John D. MacDonald foolsunlong Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible. John D. MacDonald adultsactionmean I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman. John D. MacDonald doorsbeautifulideas The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. John D. MacDonald heterosexualitycuresprison People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness John D. MacDonald inexplicableadoptionpeople We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. John D. MacDonald environmentimaginationworld To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world. John D. MacDonald excellencelittlesworld It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants. John D. MacDonald elephantschildrenthinking In the morning I'm often anti-semantic. John D. MacDonald morning ...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 you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee. John D. MacDonald coffeehurtpeople Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. John D. MacDonald unforgivableavoidingfriendship Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives? John D. MacDonald passionguncountry
