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It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca. -- Robert Ludlum
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
You 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
The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still. -- Robert Ludlum
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
You're on tenth base, I can't find you. -- Robert Ludlum
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies. -- Robert Ludlum
You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way. -- Robert Ludlum
I don't like your eyes. They belong on a dead fish. -- Robert Ludlum
He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes - with certain justification - that he was betrayed by his government. -- Robert Ludlum
A corruption of intentions. -- Robert Ludlum
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) -- Robert Ludlum
You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go. -- 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. (General Villiers) -- Robert Ludlum
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience. -- Robert Ludlum
The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh. -- Robert Ludlum
Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning -- Robert Ludlum
Sleep is a weapon! -- Robert Ludlum
Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth. -- Robert Ludlum
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior. -- Robert Ludlum
If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment. -- Robert Ludlum
He was a relieved man; he was an angry man. -- Robert Ludlum
I fought ... I fought and I fought ... until I ... couldn't remember any more. -- Robert Ludlum
he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right. -- Robert Ludlum
She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field. -- Robert Ludlum
Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos. -- Robert Ludlum
Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting. -- Robert Ludlum
And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy. -- Robert Ludlum
Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it. -- Robert Ludlum
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. -- Robert Ludlum
We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it. -- Robert Ludlum
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape! -- Robert Ludlum
Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them. -- Robert Ludlum
They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been - had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not. -- Robert Ludlum
I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend] -- Robert Ludlum
There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try. -- Robert Ludlum
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
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
Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates -- Robert Ludlum
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
Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed. -- Robert Ludlum
A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it. -- Robert Ludlum
They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer. -- Robert Ludlum
A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not. -- Robert Ludlum
I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we? -- Robert Ludlum
there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons! -- Robert Ludlum
There was too little space for their own - and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties. -- Robert Ludlum
Life is extremely complicated. -- Robert Ludlum
I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful ... vegetable! -- Robert Ludlum
Will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all -- Robert Ludlum
He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically. -- Robert Ludlum
Learn always but never appear to be learning. -- Robert Ludlum
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
What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him. -- Robert Ludlum
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
everything we knew, everything we felt!' 'Not quite everything,' he said, touching her cheek. 'I'm Jason to you, Bourne to me, because that's the name I was given, and have to use it because I don't have any other. But it's not mine. -- Robert Ludlum
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
For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions. -- Robert Ludlum
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
Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few. -- Robert Ludlum
Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary. -- Robert Ludlum
Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be. -- Robert Ludlum
When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying. -- Robert Ludlum
The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed. -- Robert Ludlum