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The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really. — Ron Suskind

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror. — Patrick Suskind

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes. — Ron Suskind

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent. — Patrick Suskind

Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame. — Patrick Suskind

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises. — Ron Suskind

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot. — Ron Suskind

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them. — Ron Suskind

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness. — Ron Suskind

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired. — Ron Suskind

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction. — Ron Suskind

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia. — Ron Suskind

Security is by far the city's predominant business. — Ron Suskind

Mrs. Porter was fat, and her breath smelled like burnt newspapers. — Patrick Suskind

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world! — Patrick Suskind

One world leader warned another the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need. — Ron Suskind

Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. — Patrick Suskind

Man's misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs. — Patrick Suskind

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle. — Ron Suskind

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force. — Ron Suskind

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them. — Ron Suskind

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches. — Ron Suskind

I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me. — Ron Suskind

I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY. US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain — Ron Suskind

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken. — Ron Suskind

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying. — Ron Suskind

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything. — Patrick Suskind

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions. — Ron Suskind

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. — Ron Suskind

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted. — Patrick Suskind

For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance. — Patrick Suskind

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president. — Ron Suskind

Religions find lasting utility in terms of prescription or parameter, rules for the conduct of human affairs. — Ron Suskind

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick Suskind

What can we do? It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know. — Ron Suskind

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose. — Ron Suskind

He was finally able to bask in his own existence; and he found it splendid. — Patrick Suskind

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes. — Ron Suskind

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine - until it wasn't. — Ron Suskind

She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky. — Patrick Suskind

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man. — Patrick Suskind

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. — Patrick Suskind

Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings. — Patrick Suskind

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. — Ron Suskind

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. — Ron Suskind

The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a counterfrost, fear. — Patrick Suskind

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist. — Patrick Suskind

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ron Suskind

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders
management skills. — Ron Suskind

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. — Ron Suskind

Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence". — Ron Suskind

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place. — Ron Suskind

He came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length. — Patrick Suskind

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does. — Ron Suskind

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. — Ron Suskind

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules. — Ron Suskind

He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you. — Patrick Suskind

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere. — Ron Suskind

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer — Patrick Suskind

Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself. — Patrick Suskind

But perhaps we ask too much of him. Perhaps he really was only a god. — Patrick Suskind

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. — Ron Suskind

And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom
to direct their impotent rage. — Patrick Suskind

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community? — Ron Suskind

God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men. — Patrick Suskind

He did not want to have his newfound respiratory freedom ruined so soon be the sultry climate of humans. — Patrick Suskind

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. — Ron Suskind

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two, — Ron Suskind

But he did decide vegetatively, as a bean when once tossed aside must decide if it ought to germinate or had better let things be. — Patrick Suskind

How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble. — Patrick Suskind

He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors. — Patrick Suskind

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious. — Ron Suskind

These were lobbyists - many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings. — Ron Suskind

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status. — Ron Suskind

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world. — Ron Suskind