A Tan and Sandy Silence Quotes

“Welcome”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“Time is the random wind that blows down the long corridor, slamming all the doors.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“She asked me what Meyer had meant about her having a broken wing. I said he was one of the last of the great romantics. I said there used to be two. But now there was just the one left. The hairy one.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“First, we all stop listening, so they have to make it ever more horrendous to capture our attention. Secondly, we all become even more convinced that everything has gone rotten, and there is no hope at all, no hope at all. In a world of no hope the motto is semper fidelis, which means in translation, “Every week is screw-your-buddy week and his wife too, if he’s out of town.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“If caught, he would feel fury and indignation at the game ending too soon.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“When you cannot like yourself or any part of yourself in mind or body, then you cannot love anyone else at all.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“If you keep things in the front of your mind, you worry at them like a hound chomping a dead rabbit.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“The real guilt is in being a human being. That is the horrible reality which bugs us all. Wolves, as a class, are cleaner, more industrious, far less savage, and kinder to each other and their young.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“That old honorary Cuban had simplified the question all to hell when he’d said that a moral act is something you feel good after. Conversely, you feel bad after an immoral act. But what about the act that is neither moral nor immoral, Papa? How are you supposed to feel then?”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“A gaggle of giggles?” Meyer said, trying that one on me. My turn. “How about a prance of pussycats?” “Not bad at all. Hmmm. A scramble of scrumptious?”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“People are very good at things they are very interested in.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence

“On the most beautiful day any April could be asked to come up with,”
― John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence