The Bourne Identity
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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.
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.
You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.
He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.
He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.
Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain
There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.
For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.
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