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"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
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"I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world."
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"If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears."
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"We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that."
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"Have you gone crazy?"."
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"Have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are."
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"I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method."
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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
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"Crazy gets all the knives."
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"The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip."
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"Though this be madness yet there is method in 't."
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"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
Marriage
"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
War
"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
War
"The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received."
People
"Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves."
Heart
"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
Age
"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own."
Life
"I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man."
Man
"In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs."
People
"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."
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