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Susan Howatch Quotes

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

Susan Howatch
Cat, Animal, Humanity

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.

Susan Howatch
Wind, Land, Two
Susan Howatch, Bruce Johnson, Charles Adolph Huttar (2005). “Scandalous Truths: Essays by and about Susan Howatch”, p.81, Susquehanna University Press

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

Susan Howatch
Truth, Sound, Advantage
FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from May 12, 2015

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.

Susan Howatch
Anger, Done, Damage

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.

Susan Howatch
Design, Purpose, World
Susan Howatch (1971). “Penmarric”

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

Susan Howatch

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Susan Howatch
Boredom, Wonder, Break
FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from Dec 23, 2014

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.

Susan Howatch
Life, Moon, Men
FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from Jul 25, 2016

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

Susan Howatch
Lonely, Past, Share
SUSAN HOWATCH (1984). “THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE VOLUME 2”

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

Susan Howatch
Philosophical, Pages, Duty

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.

Susan Howatch
Believe, Light, People

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