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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

Ken Follett

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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 imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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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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I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.
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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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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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Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
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A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.
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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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There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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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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