The cruelest thing you can do to a...

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

The Bourne Supremacy

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I 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

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

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

The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.

- Robert Ludlum

And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.

- Robert Ludlum

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

- Robert Ludlum

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