01UndatedPerhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
02UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedI get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn't really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you're lucky, it becomes an art form. But first, it's got to be a craft.. You've got to have a beginning, middle and end. And I have sort of applied the theatrical principles to writing. Throw the story in the air and see what's going to happen.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
04UndatedYou appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
05UndatedBefore 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. (General Villiers)Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
06UndatedThe mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
07UndatedAnd then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
08UndatedTruth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
09UndatedShe's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
10UndatedThere is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ― unless it is a woman.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
16UndatedI fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
17UndatedMen 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedI start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.Robert Ludlum / quote ↗
