Richard Condon Quotes

• I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

  Richard Condon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Important

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• Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

  Richard Condon

  Cancer, Men, Leader

  Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

  Richard Condon

  Lonely, Self, Self Centered

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• The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

  Richard Condon

  Comedy, Birth, Humans

  Richard Condon (1971). “The vertical smile”

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• What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.

  Richard Condon

  Art, Thinking, Enlightenment

  1976 Comment in D L Fitzpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

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• Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.

  Richard Condon

  Causes, Sin, Eating

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• Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

  Richard Condon

  Prognosis, Psychiatric, Absolutely Nothing

  Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

  Richard Condon

  Artist, Men, Myth

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• Cheese. The adult form of milk.

  Richard Condon

  Food, Cooking, Adults

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• In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

  Richard Condon

  Kings, Differences, People

  1961 A Talent for Loving, bk.1, ch.6.

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• When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with
  my characters], book after book.

  Richard Condon

  Book, Character, Doctors

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• Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

  Richard Condon

  Order, Modern Life, Made

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