C.J. Sansom quotes
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“We of alien looks or words must stick together.”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2008). “Revelation”, p.65, Pan Macmillan
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“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.”
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“Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2008). “Revelation”, p.180, Pan Macmillan
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“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.194, Penguin
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“The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.132, Penguin
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“Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2008). “Dissolution: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.293, Pan Macmillan
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“Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2006). “Winter in Madrid”, Macmillan Children's Books
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“The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.”
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“But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2008). “Revelation”, p.259, Pan Macmillan
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“It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.202, Penguin
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“If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?”
-- C.J. SansomSource : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.92, Penguin
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“Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.”
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