"I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!"

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Source : Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Identity: Jason Bourne Book #1”, p.110, Bantam

Robert Ludlum

#Vegetables Quotes #Resourceful Quotes

“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”
“Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.”
“Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.”
“Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.”
“The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.”
“As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.”
“Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.”
“It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.”

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