Condominium Quotes

“He had to find a reason why he could not understand events. His only other choice was a permanent condition of confusion and terror. So one day he came across something which hinted at a vast conspiracy. He read further in that area. God knows, there is a very wide choice of fictional conspiracies to accept. The Rothschild anti-Semitic world-control mishmash made some kind of weird sense to C. Noble, and so now he documents it. He is still afraid, but he thinks he is doing something constructive to thwart the conspirators by exposing them to people who will join him in his work. Poor old Fred Dawdy in Three-E has been sold on it. He was ready to be sold. There are, of course, C. Noble Winneys on the far far left, too, blaming all world turmoil on the military-industrial complex of the right. The John Birch Society blames it all on a Communist conspiracy. Winney thinks that is simplistic. He sees conspiracies of both left and right, engineered by the Rothschilds. The Transcendental Meditators, the Jesus freaks, the diet faddists, the drunks, the bedroom athletes, the body builders, the spiritualists, every one of them has made their fear more controllable through having found the Real Answer. And every person with the real answer is savagely intolerant of anybody else’s answer, because he does not dare risk weakening his own. The fabric is too fragile to start with. They are all true believers and—”
― John D. MacDonald, Condominium

“Funerals are small if you outlive the people who would have attended.”
― John D. MacDonald, Condominium

“His grotesque theories of vast conspiracies came in conflict with history. And when they did, Winney bent history to conform to the theories.”
― John D. MacDonald, Condominium

“Conspiracy theories sell well. Common sense is very difficult to merchandise. And someone is always ready and eager to manufacture something that will sell, no matter how meretricious.”
― John D. MacDonald, Condominium