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"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."
"Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
"The only measure of judging a human being is through that person's character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker."
Explore more quotes by Ken Follett
"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."
"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."
"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond."
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
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