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It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something. . . What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?

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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

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The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

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I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

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I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

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