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The truth is not arrived at by majority vote. — Ken Follett

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

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

How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted. — Ken Follett

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

It's like knowing your way through the forest. You don't keep the whole forest in your mind, but wherever you are, you know where to go next. — Ken Follett

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

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

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

Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ... — Ken Follett

Grigori had become good at that, and in consequence had won the loyalty of his platoon. — Ken Follett

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 — Ken Follett

A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully. — Ken Follett

I started writing stories in my spare time. — Ken Follett

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

The world was changing so fast it was hard to keep up. Grigori had never been inside — Ken Follett

I could fall for you in a heartbeat — Ken Follett

He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books. — Ken Follett

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers. — Ken Follett

If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault. — Ken Follett

Hard work should be rewarded by good food. — Ken Follett

A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive - but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe. — Ken Follett

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great. — Ken Follett

Dimka wondered what it must be like, to love a woman for half a century and then lose her, suddenly, between one beat of the heart and the next. — Ken Follett

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

With the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows. — Ken Follett

Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts. — Ken Follett

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

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

It was the most romantic plane ever made. — Ken Follett

For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at. — Ken Follett

A very good editor is almost a collaborator. — Ken Follett

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought. — Ken Follett

There's a time and place for spontaneity, — Ken Follett

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. — Ken Follett

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett

In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn't sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God. — Ken Follett

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction. — Ken Follett

Thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him. — Ken Follett

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. — Ken Follett

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

Them their welfare system meant — Ken Follett

It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches. — Ken Follett

The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten, — Ken Follett

Most of my stories have some basis in fact. — Ken Follett

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war - the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers. — Ken Follett

They have no tsar in America - no emperor or king of any kind. The army can't just shoot anyone they like. The people rule the country!" She — Ken Follett

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?' — Ken Follett

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

I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll. — Ken Follett

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

I see everything, but understand nothing! — Ken Follett

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

A man who had a love affair was considered wicked but romantic; a woman who did the same was a whore. — Ken Follett

You will make love to a fat Prussian general who will call you his Liebling. — Ken Follett

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing. — Ken Follett

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

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

jaw. He examined his morning beard, pulling the loose skin this way — Ken Follett

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

To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game — Ken Follett

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

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. — Ken Follett

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. — Ken Follett

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. — Ken Follett

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too. — Ken Follett

Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York. — Ken Follett

There he saw a woman. He recognised her. She smiled. His heart stood still. Aliena — Ken Follett

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland. — Ken Follett

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

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

The duck swallows the worm — Ken Follett

Fascism is a lie, but an alluring one". — Ken Follett

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

Patria o muerte! Motherland or death! Cuba si, yanqui no! — Ken Follett

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

intuition should never be ignored. — Ken Follett

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it. — Ken Follett

A secret shared is a secret no more. — Ken Follett

Philip believed that caring for people was the service of God. That was what salvation was about. — Ken Follett

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

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun. — Ken Follett

I think more people should shoot newspaper editors ... it might improve the press — Ken Follett

When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement. — Ken Follett

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? — Ken Follett

It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. — Ken Follett

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

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally. — Ken Follett

When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally. — Ken Follett

It seemed trivial. After the battlefield it was going to be difficult to take seriously some of the stuff people worried about in peacetime. — Ken Follett

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

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

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

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

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. — Ken Follett

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

I've met the people who run Alabama. Believe me, they're not that smart. — Ken Follett

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

Chaperoning rules had relaxed since the outbreak of war. It was no longer scandalous for a single woman to go out unescorted in the daytime. — Ken Follett

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote. — Ken Follett