Robert Ludlum Quotes

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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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Death is a statistic for the computers.

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It wasn't a probability anymore, it was a reality.

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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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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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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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Daniel's a statistician. He sees numbers — fractions, equations, totals — and they spell out the odds for him. God knows he's brilliant at it; he's saved the lives of hundreds with those statistics.

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It was a desperate strategy, based on probabilities, but it was all he had left.

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I don't believe you. Not because you're a poor liar, but because it doesn't conform with the facts. I work with statistics, Mr. Washburn, or Mr. Bourne, or whatever your name is. I respect observable data and I can spot inaccuracies; I'm trained to do that.

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There are three major and perhaps a dozen minor rental agencies, not counting the hotels, which we've covered separately. These are manageable statistics, but, of course, the garages are not.

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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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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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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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There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

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That gentleman will call the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I think they're scared of him. They're merely professional killers; he's in advertising!

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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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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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How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument.

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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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I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

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Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

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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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He wasn't smart enough to see it.... He couldn't think geometrically.

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A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

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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.

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So I suppose I equate suspense and good theatre in a very similar way. I think it's all suspense and 'what-happens-next'. From that point of view, yes, I guess, I am theatrical.

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