The 36+ John D. MacDonald Quotes

To Enjoy Enduring Success We Should Travel A Little In Advance Of The World.

When You See The Ugliness Behind The Tears Of Another Person, It Makes You Take A Closer Look At Your Own.

In The Morning I'm Often Anti-semantic.

...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.

If You Would Be Thrilled By Watching The Galloping Advance Of A Major Glacier, You'd Be Ecstatic Watching Changes In Publishing.

People Cannot Endure Inexplicable Worthlessness

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.

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.

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.

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.

As I Holed Up In The City Of Angels, I Was Also Aware Of A Comforting Feeling Of Anonymity. In The World's Biggest Third-class City I Could Pass Unnoticed. I Spoke The Language. I Was Familiar With The Currency. I Could Drink The Water. I Could Almost Breathe The Air, Late April Air, Compounded Of Interesting Hydrocarbons.

We Were About To Give Up And Call It A Night When Somebody Threw The Girl Off The Bridge.