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I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?
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Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.
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The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.
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The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
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pain
hurt
panic
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What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.
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Robert Ludlum |
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I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!
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Robert Ludlum |
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The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.
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Credo quia absurdum - I believe because it is absurd.
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A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
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You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.
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Learn always but never appear to be learning.
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favorite-quote
jason-bourne
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How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
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Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.
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truth
inspirational
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It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.
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Robert Ludlum |
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There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.
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Robert Ludlum |
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You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.
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He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.
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Robert Ludlum |
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The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.
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self-delusion
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Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.
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Robert Ludlum |
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Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.
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Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)
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I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings at their clubs. They've got their tight little world and you don't break in--they run it all. The bastards. The superior, self-inflated gentry of Washington. They use other men's intellects, other men's work, wrapping it all into decisions bearing their imprimaturs. And if you're on the outside, you become ..
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Robert Ludlum |
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If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette)
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Robert Ludlum |
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The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.
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And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.
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earth
world
solar-system
planet
galaxy
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Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.
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They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer.
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The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided. Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit ..
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Robert Ludlum |
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Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.
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good
joy
truth
sad
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The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks -- or something tells it -- that the remembering can be handled.
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reject
trick
remembering
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Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.
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Robert Ludlum |
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Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.
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injured
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She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.
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wives
counsel
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Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.
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stranger
unfamiliar
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When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.
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old-men
kill
dying
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he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.
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You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke."
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violence
pain
pensiveness
identity
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He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes--with certain justification--that he was betrayed by his government.
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Robert Ludlum |
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Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain
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Robert Ludlum |
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I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]"
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movie-script-writing
humor
hollywood
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Robert Ludlum |
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You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive.
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Robert Ludlum |
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there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!
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We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.
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Robert Ludlum |
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Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables -- with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.
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felt-table
dice
reputation
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