Robert Ludlum Quotes

• The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

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  Jewels, Precious Stones, Flesh

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• I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

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  Battle, Conflict, Individual

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• You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

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  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.

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  President Snow, Long, Stronger

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• Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

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  Blessed, Shapes, Bent

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

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  Thinking, Trying, Moments

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.101, Bantam

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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.

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  Games, Play, Gentleman

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.1878, Bantam

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• It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

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  Love You, People, Theatre

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• Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

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  Hate, Love Is, And Love

  Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader (2009). “Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Sanction”, Grand Central Publishing

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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.

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  World, Easier, Grows

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.411, Bantam

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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.

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  Struggle, Moving, Important

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Gemini Contenders: A Novel”, p.411, Bantam

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• What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

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  Men, Remember

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.369, Bantam

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• Learn always but never appear to be learning.

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  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Ultimatum: Jason Bourne Book #3”, p.677, Bantam

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• Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

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  Believe, I Believe, Absurd

  Robert Ludlum (2008). “The Janson Directive”, p.107, Macmillan

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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.

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  Pain, Recovery, Past

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.155, Bantam

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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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  Life, Mean, Trying

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Identity: Jason Bourne Book #1”, p.598, Bantam

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• A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

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  Men, Weakness, May

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.1944, Bantam

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• Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

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  Emotion, Dangerous

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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.

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  Summer, Beach, Loneliness

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Aquitaine Progression: A Novel”, p.64, Bantam

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• Life is extremely complicated.

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  Life Is, Complicated

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• I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

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  Trying, Nuance, Behavior

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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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  Vegetables, Bourne Identity, Resourceful

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Identity: Jason Bourne Book #1”, p.110, Bantam

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• Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

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  Hands, Economic, Greater

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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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  Lying, Simplicity, Fundamentals

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.465, Bantam

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• How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

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  Arrogance, Instruments, Collapse

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.332, Bantam

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