The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.”
“Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.”
“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.”
“Without the consciousness of guilt, existence had become so bland in Paradise that Eve welcomed the pungency of Original Sin.”
“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.”
“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”
“Her ambition was an extremely distressing condition. She sought power the way a superstitious man might look for a four-leaf clover.”
“He felt the sadness of Lucifer.”
“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.”
“The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.”
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Book Keywords:
politics, humor
