Richard Condon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.
-- Richard Condon

#Comedy #Birth #Humans
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
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
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
Cheese. The adult form of milk.
-- Richard Condon

#Milk #Cheese #Adults
Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.
-- Richard Condon

#Order #Modern Life #Made
Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.
-- Richard Condon

#Lonely #Self #Self Centered
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
Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.
-- Richard Condon

#Prognosis #Psychiatric #Absolutely Nothing
Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.
-- Richard Condon

#Causes #Sin #Eating
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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