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"We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible."
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"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."
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"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
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"The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit."
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"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
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"I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me."
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"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."
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"We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible."
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"The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed."
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"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."
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"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
Want
"I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction."
Fiction
"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
History
"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
Art
"I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not."
Change
"We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible."
Bible
"The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss."
Change
"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."
Choice
"I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are."
Change
"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."
Nation
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