Susan Howatch famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Cat #Sentimental
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
...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.
-- Susan Howatch

#Lonely #Past #Share
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
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 #Damage #Done
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

#Moon #Men #Race
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing
-- Susan Howatch

#Truth #Sound #Advantage
I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.
-- Susan Howatch
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
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

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