Robert Ludlum Quotes
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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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Life is extremely complicated.
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There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.
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Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.
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The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.
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Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!
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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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I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!
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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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Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
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A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
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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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You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.
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What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.
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Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.
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Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.
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I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
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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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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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Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
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Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning
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Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles
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I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.
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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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Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.
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Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.
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A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
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Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates
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It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.
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He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.
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