Tom Clancy Quotes

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• The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
• 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…
• 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…
• Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need…
• Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
• I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
• Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
• I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
• In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
• Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and…
• The good old days are now.
• In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
• People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology.…
• Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
• Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
• Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
• There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
• Wars are begun by frightened men.
• America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
• 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…

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