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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3) QUOTES

A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3) QUOTES

1 " It would be one kind of penance. And there are never enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for you, my friend. "

― John D. MacDonald , A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)

2 " My friend Meyer, the economist, says that cretins are the only humans who can be absolutely certain of their own sanity. All the rest of us go rocketing along rickety rails over spavined bridges and along the edge of bottomless gorges. The man who believes himself free of any taint of madness is a damned liar. "

― John D. MacDonald , A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)

3 " I went into the lunchroom. A stocky young girl in a soiled green jumper sat at a table reading a fan magazine. She got up slowly when the screen door creaked. She had enormous breasts and she looked like Buddy Hackett. "

― John D. MacDonald , A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)

4 " answer. It sounded too damned close. "

― John D. MacDonald , A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)

5 " Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor. "

― John D. MacDonald , A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)