A Man of Affairs Quotes

“You know,” she said, “it makes me think of a cartoon by Abner Dean that I saw a few years ago. It shows these people in a living room, sitting in a circle on the floor with their arms around each other, about eight or ten of them, and they are all sort of melted into each other in a kind of nasty way. They’ve built a bonfire in the middle on the rug, and the caption says, ‘After the others have left, how did we all get so wonderful?’” “Are we all so wonderful?” “Maybe I think of the cartoon because we’re all so unwonderful. Damn these sandals. Sand comes in the toes.”
― John D. MacDonald, A Man of Affairs

“In a little while she got up and went over and closed the door and came back, dropped her halter top and her sun shorts to the floor beside the bed, stood there for not more than two seconds and then stretched out beside me. She bent over the side of the bed and got her cigarettes out of the pocket of the sun shorts, lit two and gave me one and lay back in the circle of my arm, huffed out a big cloud of smoke”
― John D. MacDonald, A Man of Affairs

“haven’t”
― John D. MacDonald, A Man of Affairs