C. J. Sansom Quotes

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Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

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Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

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Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

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If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

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The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can't escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

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The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

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In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

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Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

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C. J. Sansom

C. J. Sansom

Born: December 9, 1952

Died: April 27, 2024 (aged 71)

Bio: Christopher John "C.J." Sansom was a British writer of crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history.

Known for:

Dissolution (2003)
Lamentation (2014)
Dark Fire (2004)
Heartstone (2010)
Dominion (2012)

C. J. Sansom on Wikipedia

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