https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:11:53 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/macdonald-john-d/12381/ https://wist.info/macdonald-john-d/12381/#respond Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:50:28 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=12381 But the other vitality is still there, that rancorous, sardonic, wonderful insistence on the right to dissent, to question, to object, to raise holy hell and, in direst extremity, to laugh the self-appointed squad leaders off the face of the earth with great whoops of dirty, disdainful glee. Suppress friction and a machine runs fine. Suppress friction, and a society runs down.

John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) American author
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