Top 35 Susan Howatch Quotes
#1. You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.
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#2. Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.
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#3. The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.
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#4. The gifts of the Spirit can be recognized by their fruits.
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#5. And daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret.
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#6. So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one's being.
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#7. > ... all I could think was what hell it is for the survivors when death slams into life without warning and smashes every fixed point on the emotional map.
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#8. One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
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#9. I can't complain about the way I've been marketed because it's been so successful.
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#10. If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.
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#11. Think of me as the porter ... and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded some of your bags on to my empty trolley.
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#12. It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it
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#13. What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral and intellectual convictions?' My
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#14. Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.
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#15. It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.
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#16. If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.
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#17. I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.
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#18. Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
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#19. Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255
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#20. There is no timetable for grief," said Bronwen Morgan. "Grief isn't a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief's time is beyond time, and time itself ... isn't very important.
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#21. Jung was very conscious of the mysteriousness of the human personality and the difficulty of penetrating the outward appearance and discovering the real individual.
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#22. It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
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#23. Practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve.
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#24. Morality's like mink," I said. "It's great if you can afford it.
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#25. Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.
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#26. Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)
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#28. Lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.
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#29. You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love."
So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.
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#30. Never think God doesn't listen when you tell Him what you want.
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#31. My first recommendation ... will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.
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#32. There's a pattern. Never, never doubt that there's a pattern. There's a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone.
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#33. Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.
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#34. Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.
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#35. But a show of force by the mightiest nation on earth isn't going to do anything except convince them that their attitudes are worth holding on to. Soon they'll be martyrs and world opinion will think the British Empire nothing but a big bully too fond of waving the big stick.
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