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The truth is not arrived at by majority vote.
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In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.
— Ken Follett
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
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Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...
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Grigori had become good at that, and in consequence had won the loyalty of his platoon.
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I started writing stories in my spare time.
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I could fall for you in a heartbeat
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He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books.
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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
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institution, poor mite." Lloyd had heard how the baby had been delivered by eleven-year-old Carla. That little girl
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With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
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The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.
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There's a time and place for spontaneity,
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn't sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God.
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The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.
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Them their welfare system meant
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war - the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.
— Ken Follett
I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.
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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.
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A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.
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You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.
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We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.
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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
Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York.
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Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She
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The duck swallows the worm
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Fascism is a lie, but an alluring one".
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An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
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He was the kind of man George had been fighting for a decade: an ugly, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid white racist.
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intuition should never be ignored.
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A secret shared is a secret no more.
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Philip believed that caring for people was the service of God. That was what salvation was about.
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What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.
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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
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
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.
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