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John D. MacDonald Quotes: I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.
         

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.


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You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

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If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.



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



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A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.



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