Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity (1980)

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

Robert Ludlum

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

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

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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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I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

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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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Death is a statistic for the computers.

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