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Quotes About Beach-bum

How terribly dear!" she said. "How ineffably buddy-buddy! I shouldn't have gone running to him with my little heartache, Mr. McGee. It was selfish of me. It upset him, and it didn't do me any particular good. How can he check up on anything anyway? Why don't you just invent some soothing little story for him and go down and tell it to him and then go back to your beach-bum career, whatever it is?
~ John D. MacDonald
Don't get intrigued. It's not worth it. I'm a high level beach-bum. And I'm about as permanent as a black eye.
~ John D. MacDonald