Susan Howatch Quotes
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Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
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If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.
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It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
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It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.
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You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.
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One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
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Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.
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It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it