Top 64 Robert Ludlum Quotes
#1. Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.
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#3. I fought ... I fought and I fought ... until I ... couldn't remember any more.
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#4. he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.
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#5. 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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#6. Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.
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#7. Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.
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#8. 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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#9. If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment.
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#10. And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.
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#11. Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.
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#12. Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.
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#13. 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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#14. Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!
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#15. Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.
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#16. 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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#17. I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
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#18. You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.
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#19. I don't like your eyes. They belong on a dead fish.
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#20. 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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#22. How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
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#23. You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.
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#25. Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
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#26. The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.
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#27. Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning
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#29. Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#35. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.
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#36. He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.
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#37. Will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all
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#38. I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful ... vegetable!
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#40. A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
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#41. there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons!
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#42. It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.
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#43. I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?
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#44. A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. There was too little space for their own - and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.
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#49. When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.
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#50. 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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#51. Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.
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#52. Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been - had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.
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#56. What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.
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#57. For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.
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#58. There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. everything we knew, everything we felt!' 'Not quite everything,' he said, touching her cheek. 'I'm Jason to you, Bourne to me, because that's the name I was given, and have to use it because I don't have any other. But it's not mine.
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#63. 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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#64. Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.
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