Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
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"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy
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"It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you."
Tom Clancy The Hunt for Red October
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"One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work."
Tom Clancy The Cardinal of the Kremlin
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"“One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.”"
Tom Clancy The Cardinal of the Kremlin
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"The U. S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us."
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"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it."
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"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."
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"The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that."
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"Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly."
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"I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?"
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"In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line."
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"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people."
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"The good old days are now."
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"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."
Tom Clancy
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"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed."
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"The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read"
Tom Clancy
"Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars."
Tom Clancy
"I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story."
Tom Clancy
"Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if" and "What next" (A third question, "What now", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start."
Tom Clancy
"Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits."
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