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Richard Condon

Richard Condon Books

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Richard Condon was an American novelist known for his political satires. His works often explore political and social issues with wit and satire, with his most famous novel being 'The Manchurian Candidate'. Born on March 18, 1915, he passed away on April 9, 1996.

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“Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.”

Metaphor Marijuana

Book:Money Is Love

Source: Money Is Love

“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.”

Book Character Film Actors Perfect Type Needed Directors Doctors Hollywood Presses Lawyer Agents Casting Laborers Rosters

Author:Richard Condon

“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.”

People Differences Kings Wide Priests Mexico Spain Ideological Nuance Chasms

Author:Richard Condon

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Art Literature Enlightenment Art Is Decided Regard Entertainment Decades Transcendent

Author:Richard Condon

“Cheese. The adult form of milk.”

Form Food Adults Cooking Culinary Milk Cheese

Author:Richard Condon

“Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.”

Made Order Modern Modern Life Motor General Motors Sears

Author:Richard Condon

“Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.”

Self Lonely Self Centered

Author:Richard Condon

“I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.”

Men Wells Artist Myth Marketplace

Author:Richard Condon

“Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.”

Fascinating Absolutely Nothing Psychiatric Prognosis

Book:The Manchurian Candidate

Source: The Manchurian Candidate

“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.”

Men Leader Instruments Cancer Great Leader Assassins

Book:The Manchurian Candidate

Source: The Manchurian Candidate

“Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.”

Causes Sin Break Eating Worthy Accidents

Author:Richard Condon

“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.”

Thinking Knows Important Happens Three Hours Mirrors Constant Storytelling Suspense Tension Nobody Knows

Author:Richard Condon

“The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.”

Humans Comedy Birth Vertical

Book:The vertical smile

Source: The vertical smile

About the Author

Born: March 18, 1915
Died: April 9, 1996
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 13

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