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sent to eight widows of men killed in the

The truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means.

America is free because it has disrespectful newspapers and television shows to expose and shame presidents

A man should have a hobby. It keeps him out of trouble. -Madeleine Pilaster

All birds and men are sure to die but songs may live forever.

Growing up is learning to deceive.

We move by inches, not miles,' said Gus Dewar with a smile. 'That's politics.

They claimed popular support, but banned all opposition. Lloyd

In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

And dances at night. Daisy greeted the people she knew, which was

Perched on top of the pointed nose of the

One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help

Concision is the sister of talent.

A woman would always prefer to be remembered than forgotten.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste,' the old man used to say. 'These are the virtues that made Britain great.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

He said it in the half-embarrassed, half-defiant tone of someone admitting that he belongs to a religious sect. "You

Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

Arrogance was the vice of good leaders. - Prior Philip

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

hundred million Europeans were living on fifteen hundred calories a day - the level at which health begins to suffer from malnutrition. As

Looking in the full-length mirror, she thought, I've got everything I had twenty years ago - it's all just three inches lower.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

institution, poor mite." Lloyd had heard how the baby had been delivered by eleven-year-old Carla. That little girl

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

To his consternation, her nearness made him slightly out of breath.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

In that case, do not expect to be rescued by the Red Army, Gorbachev said.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

Thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him.

The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.

Him like a mild electric shock. No woman outside his family had touched him for two years.

Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.

The Japanese discussed extending their empire, Bexforth went on. They had already annexed the vast region of Manchuria, Greg

An apology is designed to make the offender feel okay so that he can do it again. Don't be sorry. Kincaid tried to gather the shreds

When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way. The

We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure,

If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

They were taught about democracy in London, not about tyranny in Cairo.

in this country, who's got the most guns - you and Lloyd and the Labour Party, or the Conservatives with the army and the police on their side?

Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

Fascism offered false solutions, simplistically blaming groups such as Jews and Communists for complex problems such as unemployment and crime.

No one's an angel - especially if he's a man

Little things please little minds.

You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.

Like all diplomats, Walter hated it when monarchs talked directly to each other, instead of through their ministers. Anything could happen then.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

He was the kind of man George had been fighting for a decade: an ugly, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid white racist.

The worst negotiator in the world is a man who believes he's clever.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

It was unladylike even to know the name of your lawyer, let alone to understand your rights under the law. No wonder women were mercilessly exploited.

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact..

No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I'm clinging Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?

Addison's disease and colitis. Twice a day the doctors shot him up with a

She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

There's nothing wrong with white people. They just ain't black.

Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.

You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness.

The air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.

just as the Monroe Doctrine gave the same rights to the USA in South America.

If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.

wanted to see you again.

Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.

The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.

I've never told anyone about that letter," he said quietly. "I know," Thomas replied. "If you had, you'd be dead.

In Germany the police had supported the Nazis and sided with the Brownshirts. Would they do the same here? Surely

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ... Most of them are stupid.

I adore you' she said. 'When you go, I'll cry. But I'm not going to spoil today by being miserable about tomorrow

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Few of them had a father like Billy's da to tell them that the world depicted by their schoolteachers was a fantasy. But

The small boys came early to the hanging.

He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced.

The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.

The American papers, which had been available in Vladivostok, were more honest than the British. Lev

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.