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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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Robert Ludlum
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Born:
May 25, 1927
Died:
March 12, 2001
(aged 73)
Bio:
Robert Ludlum was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated between 290 million and 500 million.
Known for:
The Bourne Identity (1980)
The Matarese Circle (1979)
The Janson Directive
The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
The Chancellor Manuscript (1977)
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