S.J. Parris Quotes

#1. Because I believe God is bigger than the rules we impose on one another. I think He does not mind if we find different paths to Him.

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#2. All our past deeds, gentlemen, one way or another, will be washed up on the shore of the present.

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#3. But this girl had already suffered violence at the hands of a man; whatever she may have been in life, our cutting and probing in the name of scientific enquiry seemed like a further violation.

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#4. I am a mixture of contradictory elements. Equal parts earth and fire, melancholy and choler, I fear. But it is more that warmth and blue skies stir the blood, do you not think?

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#5. Indeed cocktail parties are death as I am sure 99 per cent of DS colleagues would agree. Whoever it was who suggested an international treaty banning National Day receptions should be canonised.

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#6. No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.

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#7. I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.

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#8. felt increasingly sure that God, whatever form He took, had not created us to kill and torture one another over the name we give Him.

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#9. If the universe is infinite, as I believe, then it must surely contain an infinite number of possibilities that we have not yet imagined or attempted to harness ...

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#10. It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.

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#11. But they argued as lawyers do, they twisted every answer I gave until it sounded like the opposite meaning, and I became so confused and afraid I found myself agreeing to statements that I knew were not true.

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#12. Faith and politics are now one and the same," he went on. "Perhaps it was always so, but it seems to have reached new extremes in our troubled century, do you not think? A man's religion tells me where his political loyalties lie, far more than his place of birth or his language.

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