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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
Temptation
"My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America."
War
"I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard."
Love
"In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know."
Time
"Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project."
Learning
"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."
Work
"When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book."
Work
"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
History
"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
History
"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader."
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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Personal Development
"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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Personal Development
"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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Personal Development
"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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