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1. "He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and giving reassurance." ~ Ken Follett

2. "O deleite transformou-se em tolerância, depois em impaciência e muitas vezes, mais para o fim, em desprezo." ~ Ken Follett

3. "Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers." ~ Ken Follett

4. "Be a perfectionist." ~ Ken Follett

5. "I enjoy learning technical details." ~ Ken Follett

6. "There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction." ~ Ken Follett

7. "She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'..." ~ Ken Follett

8. "Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts." ~ Ken Follett

9. "Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and his chisel would slip, or dig in too deeply, spoiling the shapes. But once he had got to know the lump of rock in front of him he could transform it. The more difficult the task, the more fascinated he was. He was beginning to feel that the decorative carving demanded by Tom was too easy. Zigzags, lozenges, dogtooth, spirals and plain roll moldings bored him, and even these leaves were rather stiff and repetitive. He wanted to curve natural-looking foliage, pliable and irregular, and copy the different shapes of real leaves, oak and ash and birch." ~ Ken Follett

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

11. "Ninguem sabia o quanto ela o amava. Amava-o, porque ele a devolvera à vida. Ela vivia como uma lagarta dentro de um casulo, e Jack obrigara-a a sair cá para fora e mostrara-lhe que, afinal, era uma borboleta. (...) acordando o amor que jazia latente no seu coração, teria passado o resto da vida insensível às alegrias e penas do amor." ~ Ken Follett

12. "Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life." ~ Ken Follett

13. "you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig." ~ Ken Follett

14. "She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic." ~ Ken Follett

15. "She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the stairs. Her hair was a mass of dark curls tumbling around her face, and she had dark, dark eyes. Jack realized that this was what the chansons meant when they referred to a beautiful princess in a castle. No wonder the knights all wept when the princess died." ~ Ken Follett

16. "Proportion is the heart of beauty." ~ Ken Follett

17. "It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move." ~ Ken Follett

18. "Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed." ~ Ken Follett

19. "the war taught me that nothing counts as much as loyalty" "Bullshit. you still haven't learned that when humans are under pressure, we're all willing to lie" "even to the people we care?" "we lie more to our loved ones, because we care about them so damn much. why do you think we tell the truth to priests and shrinks and total strangers we meet on trains? it's because we don't love them, so we don't care what they think." ~ Ken Follett

20. "Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote." ~ Ken Follett

21. "Ethel said: "Lloyd, there's someone here you may remember-" Daisy could not restrain herself. She ran to Lloyd and threw herself into his arms. She hugged him. She looked into his green eyes, then kissed his brown cheeks and his broken nose and then his mouth. "I love you, Lloyd," she sad madly. "I love you, I love you, I love you.""I love you, too, Daisy," he said.Behind her, Daisy heard Ethel's wry voice. "You do remember, I see." ~ Ken Follett

22. "I've worked with volunteers before," he began. "It's important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don't necessarily take that attitude. They feel they're working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch." ~ Ken Follett

23. "In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness." ~ Ken Follett

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

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

26. "But desperate people find courage." ~ Ken Follett

27. "The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.''Of course it will, Erik.''He has never yet been wrong!''A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: So far, so good!" ~ Ken Follett

28. "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

29. "He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived." ~ Ken Follett

30. "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

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

32. "An optimistic early-rising whore with red lips and red boots sauntered along, smiling hopefully at middle-aged men, but there were no takers at this hour." ~ Ken Follett

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

34. "Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them." ~ Ken Follett

35. "I bambini vennero presto per assistere all'impiccagione." ~ Ken Follett

36. "Hunger is the best seasoning." ~ Ken Follett

37. "There was also something false about the atmosphere here. It was solemn and dignified like a church or the court of a president or a museum. They were moneylenders, but they acted as if charging interest were a noble calling, like the priesthood." ~ Ken Follett

38. "You don't give up on democracy every time you lose a vote", Ethel said crisply." ~ Ken Follett

39. "This is amazing," Volodya said. "He's the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!""Something like that," Woody said. "We call it democracy." ~ Ken Follett

40. "At last it faded away, and the mushroom cloud began to disperse. Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed." ~ Ken Follett

41. "Blenkinsop sighed. "As usual, those of you who can think of better ways to win the war are invited to write directly to Mr. Winston Churchill, number 10 Downing Street, London South-West-One. Now, are there any questions, as opposed to stupid criticisms?" ~ Ken Follett

42. "The extra line or two around her eyes only made them more fascinating; the touch of silver in her hair enhanced the blackness of the rest; and if she was a little heavier than she had been it made her body more voluptuous." ~ Ken Follett

43. "«Las vejaciones a las que sometes a los demás regresan, tarde o temprano, para torturarte»," ~ Ken Follett

44. "Now, I call this nice. I got my daughter, my granddaughter, and my great-grandson, all in the same room. What more could a man ask of life?" He took a Welsh cake." ~ Ken Follett

45. "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.'" ~ Ken Follett

46. "Such disappointments, betrayals and reconciliations were the stuff of married life, but she and Jack had gone through them before the wedding. Now, at least, she felt confident that she knew him. Nothing was likely to surprise her. It was a funny way to do things, but it might be better than making your vows first and getting to know your spouse afterward." ~ Ken Follett

47. "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

48. "Rommel could smell the sea. At Torbruk the heat and the dust and flies were as bad as they had been in the desert, but it was all made bearable by that occasional whiff of salty dampness in the faint breeze." ~ Ken Follett

49. "Era fácil pronunciar palabras valientes en la oscuridad. La luz del día podía contar una historia muy diferente." ~ Ken Follett

50. "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

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