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“The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Jewels #Flesh #Stones
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“I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Battle #Conflict #Individual
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“Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Believe #I Believe #Absurd
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“There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Thinking #Trying #Moments
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“You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Way #Helpless
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“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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Long #Stronger #Littles
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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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Games #Play #Gentleman
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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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Summer #Beach #Loneliness
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“Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Powerful #Drama #Vision
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“I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Mean #Trying #Hell
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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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Panic #Crash #Turns
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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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Pain #Recovery #Past
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“Learn always but never appear to be learning.”
-- Robert Ludlum
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“Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Blessed #Shapes #Bent
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“What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Men #Remember
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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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#World #Easier #Grows
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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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Men #Gossip #Stopping
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“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Men #Weakness #May
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“I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Vegetables #Resourceful
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“He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Smart #Thinking #Jason
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“You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Moving #Two #Use
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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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Moving #Struggle #Important
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“Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Feel Better #Men #Coward
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“How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Arrogance #Instruments #Collapse
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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”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Beach #Wind #Sea
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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.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Lying #Simplicity #Fundamentals
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“Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Characterization #Theatrical
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“A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Doe #Theater #Should
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“I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Trying #Nuance #Behavior
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“Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.”
-- Robert Ludlum
#Emotion #Dangerous
