John D. MacDonald citations (39 citations, Page 2)

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John D. MacDonald: Citations en anglais

“She bets the doubles and the parlays, a guaranteed way to stay busted.”

Travis McGee series, (1966)

“They have been taught that if you are sunny, cheery, sincere, group-adjusted, popular, the world is yours, including barbecue pits, charge plates, diaper service, percale sheets, friends for dinner, washer-dryer combinations, color slides of the kiddies on the home projector, and eternal whimsical romance — with crinkly smiles and Rock Hudson dialogue. So they all come smiling and confident and unskilled into a technician’s world, and in a few years they learn that it is all going to be grinding and brutal and hateful and precarious. These are the slums of the heart.”

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Travis McGee series, (1964)

“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.”

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Travis McGee series, (1965)

“Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.”

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Travis McGee series, (1966)

“Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.”

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Non-series books, (1967)

“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.”

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Travis McGee series, (1965)

“By feeling insecure about our making love, Nina, you make the inference that we are a pair of cheap people involved in some cheap pleasant friction. Pull on the pants and walk away, adding up the score. I think we're interested in each other, involved with each other, curious about each other. This was a part of exploring and learning. When it's good you learn something about yourself too. If the spirit is involved, if there is tenderness and respect and awareness of need, that's all the morality I care about.”

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Travis McGee series, (1964)

“Three cents’ worth of squeeze bottles, plus two cents’ worth of homogenized goo, plus prime-time television equals 28 million annual sales at 69 cents each. This is the heartbeat of industrial America.”

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Travis McGee series, (1964)

“He had detected a certain sensitivity, a capacity for imagination, in the the girl in New York. But the years and the roads, the bars and the cars and the beds and the bottles — they all have flinty edges, and they are the cruel upholstery in the dark tunnel down which the soul rolls and tumbles until no more abrasion is possible, until the ultimate hardness is achieved. So here she sat, having achieved the bland defensive heartiness of a ten-dollar whore.”

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Non-series books, Slam The Big Door (1960)

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John D. MacDonald: Citations en anglais

Auteurs similaires

Richard Bach8

Kurt Vonnegut29

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