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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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I enjoy learning technical details.
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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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President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.
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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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Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?
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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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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
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I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
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