Simon Mawer Quotes

• Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

  Simon Mawer

  Thinking, Childhood, Suffering

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• Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

  Simon Mawer

  Sin, Absence

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• The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

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  Mind, Inability, Denial

  Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been. We've turned it into war. We're talking about a bunch of semi-lunatic, fanatic criminals. That's the way they should be treated.

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  War, World, Terror

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

  Simon Mawer

  Shelter, Chance, Barricades

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• Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

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  Powerful, Grief, Guilt

  Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

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  Men, Depth, Prejudice

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• Faith is the enemy of discovery.

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  Faith, Discovery, Enemy

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• All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water.... All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.

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  Faith, Lying, Philosophy

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• I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

  Simon Mawer

  School, Eight, Space

  "A life in books" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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• Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

  Simon Mawer

  People, Saws, Type

  "A life in books". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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