C.J. Sansom Quotes

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• If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?
• 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…
• But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
• 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…
• 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…
• Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
• The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
• 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:…
• We of alien looks or words must stick together.
• In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
• 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]?…
• Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

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