Quotes from The Manchurian Candidate

Richard Condon ·  358 pages

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“Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate


“Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate


“Iselin is a man who shall forever stand guard at the door of the mind to protect the people of this great nation from facts.” The”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate


“Without the consciousness of guilt, existence had become so bland in Paradise that Eve welcomed the pungency of Original Sin.”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate


“So saved are all those who enable themselves to believe, and therefore was the military mind called a juvenile mind. It was constant; it observed a code of honor in a world where any element of devotion to a rationale summoned scorn but the world itself knew itself was sick.”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate



“Her ambition was an extremely distressing condition. She sought power the way a superstitious man might look for a four-leaf clover.”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate


“Senator Jordan’s only response had been made upon a single mimeographed sheet holding a single sentence. Distributed to all press agencies, it said: “How long will you let this man use you and trick you?” Senator”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate


“He felt the sadness of Lucifer.”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate


“The resentful man is a human with the capacity for affection so poorly developed that his understanding for the motives of others very nearly does not exist.”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate


“LET US STOP IMITATING!!! Piracy and imitations of designs hamper the development and expansion of export trade. It is regrettable that there are quite a few cases of piracy in the People's Republic. Piracy injures the Chinese people's international prestige, causes the boycott of Chinese goods, and makes Chinese designers lose interest in making creative efforts.”
― Richard Condon, quote from The Manchurian Candidate



About the author

Richard Condon
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date March 18, 1915
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