John D. MacDonald Quotes
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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When I have a bad show, I can't wait until I can get back on stage to forget about it.
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
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The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.
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The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.
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It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.
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Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.
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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
