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• The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Men, Order

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• I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

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  Baby, Liars, Mean

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• Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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  Knowledge And Power, Information Knowledge, People

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

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  Fire, Doubt, Common

  Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.134, Penguin

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• Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

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  Memorable, Thinking, Storyteller

  FaceBook post by Tom Clancy from Feb 22, 2014

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• No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

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  Memorable, Doe, Matter

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• (Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

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  People, Imagination, Stereotype

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• I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

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  Writing, Simple, Trying

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• Success will ruin your life.

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  Memorable, Ruins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

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  Book, Writing, Sailing

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• Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

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  Book, Collaboration, Unnatural

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• Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Self Pity, Contradiction

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• For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

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  Memories, Struggle, Fall

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• I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.

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  Believe, Fans, Mail

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• Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

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  What If, Novel, Happened

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• It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

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  Lying, Order, Principles

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.158, Penguin

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• I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

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  Years, People, United States

  "Kudlow & Cramer", September 2, 2003.

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• The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

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  Differences, Fiction

  Tom Clancy's Speech at the National Press Club, May 18,1999.

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• The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

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  Memorable, Technology, Today

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

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  Loneliness, Luxury, Privacy

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2420, Penguin

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• Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

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  Jobs, Men, Rights

  Tom Clancy (2002). “The Sum of All Fears”, p.323, Penguin

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• Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

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  Writing, Golf, Play

  "Tom Clancy on Writing The Hunt for Red October", www.amc.com.

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• In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

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  Memorable, Men, Risk

  "King Of The 'Techno-thriller'" by Patrick Anderson, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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• I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

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  Ideas, Important, Principles

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.459, Penguin

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• Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

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  Art, Real, Lying

  Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.88, Penguin

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