Quotes from Six Days of the Condor

James Grady ·  192 pages

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“Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"--Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor”
― James Grady, quote from Six Days of the Condor


“I needed a day job that required me mostly to use my mind and hands, because my heart and soul belonged to my dreams.”
― James Grady, quote from Six Days of the Condor


“The Central Intelligence Agency, America’s best-known spy shop. In that fearful post-Joe McCarthy era, when assassinated JFK had publicly loved James Bond and secretly been entangled in covert intrigues like assassination plots against Cuba’s Fidel Castro outsourced to the Mafia by our spies, the CIA was a myth-shrouded invisible army. In those pre-Internet days before electronic books, Web sites with varied credibility, and search”
― James Grady, quote from Six Days of the Condor


“The adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, a team generally regarded as seeking justice, can be compared to the adventures of Rex Stout's two most famous characters, Nero Wolf and Archie Goodwin.”
― James Grady, quote from Six Days of the Condor


“Ask them, then. ...Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them, when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You want to know something? They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it.”
― James Grady, quote from Six Days of the Condor



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James Grady
Born place: in Shelby, Montana, The United States
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