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

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
Life
Conditionally
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Wish

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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.
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To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.
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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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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?
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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 both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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