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the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world.
— Charles McCarry
China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.
— Charles McCarry
Food in the trash is like the tossed-and-found.
— Wendelin Van Draanen
The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
— Charles McCarry
When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.
— Charles McCarry
Life could be a strange and beautiful thing sometimes. Other times it was just a disaster. But sometimes beauty won out.
— Kylie Scott
Better to be a successful failure, than to fail at success.
— Benny Bellamacina
Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.
— Charles McCarry
It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.
— Vann Chow
Eternal vigilance is the price of an open mind.
— Henry Hazlitt
You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.
— Ruth Westheimer
I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.
— Charles McCarry
Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised.
— Charles McCarry
(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.
— Charles McCarry
I go by instinct - i don't worry about experience.
— Barbra Streisand
Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.
— Friedrich Nietzsche