John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald
John Dann MacDonaldwas an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 July 1916
John D. MacDonald quotes about
imagination world environment
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.
glitter maintaining structure
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.
beautiful doors ideas
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.
excellence world littles
To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
friendship unforgivable avoiding
Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
tears looks persons
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
children thinking elephants
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.
morning
In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.
long fool sun
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.
heterosexuality prison cures
The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
relationship home commitment
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.
war color white
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
people adoption inexplicable
People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness
girl giving-up night
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.