Richard Condon Quotes

#1. Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.

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#2. Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

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#3. Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.

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#4. In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

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#5. Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

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#6. What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.

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#7. Cheese. The adult form of milk.

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#8. The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

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#9. Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

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#10. Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

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#11. I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

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#12. I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

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