Richard Condon Quotes

#1. The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech

Stephen Keague

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

Richard Condon

#3. Love is like this amazing, all-consuming force that sneaks up on you and steals all those brain cells that make you think rationally and replaces them with emotions so powerful that you're impotent to change their course.

Melissa Foster

#4. All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

Christopher Bollen

#5. Maybe sometimes you have to topple a secret empire that's been around for centuries in order to save one that's been around forever.

Gina Damico

#6. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

Al Alvarez

#7. 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.

Richard Condon

#8. 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.

Richard Condon

#9. Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know.

Walker Percy

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

Richard Condon

#11. Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive???

Deyth Banger

#12. To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

Ryan Phillippe

#13. Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane

Honore De Balzac

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

Richard Condon

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

Richard Condon

#16. Cheese. The adult form of milk.

Richard Condon

#17. 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.

Richard Condon

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

Richard Condon

#19. In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

Clayton Christensen

#20. 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.

Richard Condon

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

Richard Condon

#22. I received a gift
it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my 25 years of live. Does your husband make you a better person?

Ann Patchett

#23. Great. There goes our security deposit."
~ Sean

Dianne Duvall

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

Richard Condon

#25. Besides, it seems to mee that spreading the doctrine of doing good can harm no one.' Nakor shook his head. 'Would that it were true. Men have been put to death for preaching good.

Raymond E. Feist