‘The Great War’ we used to call it. That’s before we knew we were
going to have to number them.
–Do you miss that kind of action, sir?
–No. I miss that kind of clarity.
–I didn’t know you smoked?
–I quit three years ago.
–I need your car.
–That’s called grand theft. You don’t want trouble with the police.
–Look at this face. Could I be wrong about an ideogram?
–It’s a great face. But it’s never been to China.
–Something’s rotten in The Company.
–You never complained until yesterday.
–You began killing my friends yesterday!
-I need your car.
-It’s called grand theft. You don’t want to get in trouble with the
police.
-Step away from the window.
-I won’t scream.
-I know.
555-9805.
A little breakdown in the security there?
A mystery that didn’t sell. Translated into an odd assortment of
languages: Turkish but not French, Arabic but not German, and not
Russian. Dutch.
Community! Jesus, you guys are kind to yourselves. Community.
Condor is an amateur: lost, unpredictable, perhaps sentimental. He
could fool a professional. Not deliberately, but precisely because
he’s lost and doesn’t know what to do.
Damn! You do read everything!
Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?
Fuck the Wall Street Journal!
Have I ever denied you anything?
Hey, what’re you? A clown?
I don’t remember yesterday. Today it rained
I don’t think I want to know you very well. I don’t think you’re gonna live much longer.
I never ask myself ‘why?’. I ask myself ‘when?’, of course ‘where?’ and always ‘how much?’.
I was just checking the files and I came across this carbon copy of an inquiry he sent to Persian Gulf command.
I work for the CIA.
I work for the CIA. I’m not a spy…I just read books.
I’ll talk to you in 60 minutes.
I’m doing a survey. Do you believe that the Condor is really an
endangered species?
Jesus! What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a
lie is the same as telling the truth.
Personnel should enter and exit by authorized means only!
Please have the book you’re working on analyzed and on the computer by four o’clock.
Tentrex Industries…It’s a cover. I work for the CIA.
That number is 202-227-0098.
The rain should end by 11:30.
This whole damn thing was about oil.
Turner! How do you know they’ll print it?
TURNER:Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?
HIGGINS:Are you crazy?
TURNER:Am I?
HIGGINS:Look Turner
TURNER:Do we have plans?
HIGGINS:No! Absolutely not! We have games! That’s all; we play games! What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to destablize a regime? That’s what we’re paid to do.
TURNER:Walk on! Go On! So ATWOOD just took the games too seriously? He really was going to do it; wasn’t he?
HIGGINS:Renigade operation. ATWOOD knew 5412 would never authorize it, there was no way! Not with the heat on the company.
TURNER:What if there hadn’t been any heat; supposin I hadn’t stumbled on a plan; say nobody had?
HIGGINS:Different ballgame! Fact is there was nothing wrong with the plan. No, the plan was allright, the plan would have worked.
TURNER:Boy, what is it with you people? Do you think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
HIGGINS:No, it’s simple econo,ics. Today, it’s oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food, plutionium, maybe even sooner. Now what do you think the people are going to want us to do then?
TURNER:Ask them
HIGGINS:Not now; then! Ask em when theyr’e running out! Ask em when there’s no heat in their homes and theyr’e cold. Ask em when their engins stop. Ask em when people who’ve never known hunger start going hungry. Want to know something? They won’t want us to ask em! They’ll just want us to get it for em.
TURNER:Boy, have you found a home! 7 people killed, Higgins!
HIGGINS:The company didn’t order it, ATWOOD did!
TURNER:Atwood did! And who the hell is Atwood, he’s you, he’s all you guys. 7 people killed and you played fucking games.
HIGGINS:Right, and the other side does too! That’s why we can’t let you stay outside
TURNER:Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?
HIGGINS:Are you crazy?
TURNER:Am I?
HIGGINS:Look Turner
TURNER:Do we have plans?
HIGGINS:No! Absolutely not! We have games! That’s all; we play games! What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to destablize a regime? That’s what we’re paid to do.
TURNER:Walk on! Go On! So Atwood just took the games too seriously? He really was going to do it; wasn’t he?
HIGGINS:Renigade operation. Atwood knew 5412 would never authorize it, there was no way! Not with the heat on the company.
TURNER:What if there hadn’t been any heat; supposin I hadn’t stumbled on a plan; say nobody had?
HIGGINS:Different ballgame! Fact is there was nothing wrong with the plan. No, the plan was allright, the plan would have worked.
TURNER:Boy, what is it with you people? Do you think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
HIGGINS:No, it’s simple economics. Today, it’s oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food, plutionium, maybe even sooner. Now what do you think the people are going to want us to do then?
TURNER:Ask them
HIGGINS:Not now; then! Ask em when they’re running out! Ask em when there’s no heat in their homes and they’re cold. Ask em when their engines stop. Ask em when people who’ve never known hunger start going hungry. Want to know something? They won’t want us to ask em! They’ll just want us to get it for em.
TURNER:Boy, have you found a home! 7 people killed, Higgins!
HIGGINS:The company didn’t order it, ATWOOD did!
TURNER:Atwood did! And who the hell is Atwood, he’s you, he’s all you guys. 7 people killed and you played fucking games.
HIGGINS:Right, and the other side does too! That’s why we can’t let you stay outside
Two years military service. Signal Corps. Telephone linesman, long lines. Switchboard maintenance, six months overseas. Separated 9/61.
Worked at Bell Labs Communication Research. College on the G.I. bill.
Van Gogh didn’t begin painting until he was almost 30. On the other hand, Mozart was playing piano at 3, and composing at 6.
What the hell are you scared for? You’ve got the gun!
You have good eyes. Not prying, but they don’t lie. And they don’t
look away much. And they don’t miss anything.
You live alone.
Youu’ve done more damage than you know.
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