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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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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
"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."
"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."
"Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula."
"Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down."
"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
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"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."
"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."
"People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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