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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.

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

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
Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

Richard Condon
Comedy, Birth, Humans
Richard Condon (1971). “The vertical smile”

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
1976 Comment in D L Fitzpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

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

Richard Condon
Causes, Sin, Eating

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

Richard Condon
Prognosis, Psychiatric, Absolutely Nothing
Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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

Richard Condon
Artist, Men, Myth

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

Richard Condon
Food, Cooking, Adults

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
1961 A Talent for Loving, bk.1, ch.6.

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

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Richard Condon
Order, Modern Life, Made

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