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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Later on after the war was over the women were to find this constantly; the men who had actually been in the thick of battle never opened their mouths about it, refused to join the ex-soldiers’ clubs and leagues, wanted nothing to do with institutions perpetuating the memory of war.”

51. “Later on after the war was over the women were to find this constantly; the men who had actually been in the thick of battle never opened their mouths about it, refused to join the ex-soldiers’ clubs and leagues, wanted nothing to do with institutions perpetuating the memory of war.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “A man who has nothing to lose have everything to gain, and a man without feelings cannot hurt.”

52. “A man who has nothing to lose have everything to gain, and a man without feelings cannot hurt.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.”

53. “Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Why is it, Caesar, that there’s always a man like Lucius Metellus?” “If there were not, Antonius, this world might work better. Though if this world worked better, there’d be no place in it for men like me,” said Caesar.”

54. “Why is it, Caesar, that there’s always a man like Lucius Metellus?” “If there were not, Antonius, this world might work better. Though if this world worked better, there’d be no place in it for men like me,” said Caesar.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.”

55. “I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Avoid the plot like the plague; build the characters, then let them rip.”

56. “Avoid the plot like the plague; build the characters, then let them rip.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Great literature was never intended to be either facsimile or echo of real life; it was meant to shut out real life for a while, to free the harried mind from mundane considerations, so that the mind could holiday amid glorious language and vivid word-pictures and inspiring or alluring ideas.”

57. “Great literature was never intended to be either facsimile or echo of real life; it was meant to shut out real life for a while, to free the harried mind from mundane considerations, so that the mind could holiday amid glorious language and vivid word-pictures and inspiring or alluring ideas.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “You’re lucky to have escaped this weary life so soon. Perhaps that’s what hell is, a long term in earth-bound bondage. Perhaps we suffer our hell’s in living...”

58. “You’re lucky to have escaped this weary life so soon. Perhaps that’s what hell is, a long term in earth-bound bondage. Perhaps we suffer our hell’s in living...”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “We all have contempt for whatever there’s too many of. Out here it’s sheep, but in the city it’s people.”

59. “We all have contempt for whatever there’s too many of. Out here it’s sheep, but in the city it’s people.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “I’ll aways be wondering how you are, what you’re doing, if you’re all right, if there’s anything I could do to help you. I’ll even have to wonder if you’re still alive, won’t I?”

60. “I’ll aways be wondering how you are, what you’re doing, if you’re all right, if there’s anything I could do to help you. I’ll even have to wonder if you’re still alive, won’t I?”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Her tears were blinding her, the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth grieving for.”

61. “Her tears were blinding her, the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth grieving for.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “The lioness in Rome is quiet. I will not wake her to seek more money.”

62. “The lioness in Rome is quiet. I will not wake her to seek more money.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “I do not require an apology from you for any of the rest of us, for you have lost our love and respect, and that renders apologies valueless.”

63. “I do not require an apology from you for any of the rest of us, for you have lost our love and respect, and that renders apologies valueless.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “A woman can live without it quite well for years at a stretch, but it was nice, when it was the one man.”

64. “A woman can live without it quite well for years at a stretch, but it was nice, when it was the one man.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “There is something terribly reassuring about being in politics to enrich oneself. It’s normal. It’s human. It’s forgivable. It’s understandable. The ones to watch are the ones who are in politics to change the world. They do the real damage, the power-men and the altruists. It isn’t healthy to think about other people ahead of oneself. Other people are not as deserving. Did I tell you I was a Skeptic?”

65. “There is something terribly reassuring about being in politics to enrich oneself. It’s normal. It’s human. It’s forgivable. It’s understandable. The ones to watch are the ones who are in politics to change the world. They do the real damage, the power-men and the altruists. It isn’t healthy to think about other people ahead of oneself. Other people are not as deserving. Did I tell you I was a Skeptic?”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “And nothing pleased a man more than being told he was the best ever. Luke never dreamed how many men aside from himself had been fooled with that one.”

66. “And nothing pleased a man more than being told he was the best ever. Luke never dreamed how many men aside from himself had been fooled with that one.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Dr. Murray made it clear to me before I left that a woman who enhoys the Act is as loose as a harlot. God gives pleasure in it only to husbands. Women are the source of evil and temptation, therefore women are to blame when men fall into fleshly error. It was Eve who seduced Adam, Eve who entered into league with the serpent, who was the Devil in disguise. So the only pleasure women are allowed is in their children.”

67. “Dr. Murray made it clear to me before I left that a woman who enhoys the Act is as loose as a harlot. God gives pleasure in it only to husbands. Women are the source of evil and temptation, therefore women are to blame when men fall into fleshly error. It was Eve who seduced Adam, Eve who entered into league with the serpent, who was the Devil in disguise. So the only pleasure women are allowed is in their children.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “The world achieved its ultimate contraction, turned in upon itself, and totally disappeared.”

68. “The world achieved its ultimate contraction, turned in upon itself, and totally disappeared.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “There is something terribly reassuring about being in politics to enrich oneself. It’s normal. It’s human. It’s forgivable. It’s understandable. The ones to watch are the ones who are in politics to change the world. They do the real damage, the power-men and the altruists.”

69. “There is something terribly reassuring about being in politics to enrich oneself. It’s normal. It’s human. It’s forgivable. It’s understandable. The ones to watch are the ones who are in politics to change the world. They do the real damage, the power-men and the altruists.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Something in her little soul was old enough and woman enough to feel the irresistible, stinging joy of being needed; she sat rocking his head back and forth, until his grief expended itself in emptiness.”

70. “Something in her little soul was old enough and woman enough to feel the irresistible, stinging joy of being needed; she sat rocking his head back and forth, until his grief expended itself in emptiness.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we’re going to do is sanctified by marriage. It’s an act of love – of love. Not merely of the flesh, but of the mind and even the soul. There’s nothing about it you shouldn’t welcome.”

71. “We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we’re going to do is sanctified by marriage. It’s an act of love – of love. Not merely of the flesh, but of the mind and even the soul. There’s nothing about it you shouldn’t welcome.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “I suppose daughters are never as patient with their mothers as sons are.”

72. “I suppose daughters are never as patient with their mothers as sons are.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “What can I do when there is no courage in me, Father? Where does courage come from? Why did I not receive my share?”

73. “What can I do when there is no courage in me, Father? Where does courage come from? Why did I not receive my share?”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “They didn’t like company in grief; they preferred to be alone with their pain.”

74. “They didn’t like company in grief; they preferred to be alone with their pain.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.”

75. “He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “No one ever dreamed that she loathed the willow pattern tea set, the blue table and chairs, and Agnes’s blue dress.”

76. “No one ever dreamed that she loathed the willow pattern tea set, the blue table and chairs, and Agnes’s blue dress.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “The Julius Caesars are directly descended from the goddess Venus through her grandson Iulus, son of her son Aeneas.”

77. “The Julius Caesars are directly descended from the goddess Venus through her grandson Iulus, son of her son Aeneas.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “What could death be for him but the entrance into everlasting life? For the rest of us, the passage is not so easy.”

78. “What could death be for him but the entrance into everlasting life? For the rest of us, the passage is not so easy.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “Caesar’s kindnesses are conscious, done for Caesar’s benefit, and Caesar no longer sees the world as a place wherein magical things can occur. Because they can’t. Men and women ruin it with their impulses, desires, thoughtlessness, lack of intelligence and cupidity.”

79. “Caesar’s kindnesses are conscious, done for Caesar’s benefit, and Caesar no longer sees the world as a place wherein magical things can occur. Because they can’t. Men and women ruin it with their impulses, desires, thoughtlessness, lack of intelligence and cupidity.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “All of this was a part of this. The beauty of God and the ugliness of Man. What place could Man have in such a gorgeous universe?”

80. “All of this was a part of this. The beauty of God and the ugliness of Man. What place could Man have in such a gorgeous universe?”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “True democracy is a Greek philosophic unattainable.”

81. “True democracy is a Greek philosophic unattainable.”

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Colleen McCullough Quote: “The Julian ancestry was so stellar, so august, that opportunities to fill the family coffers had passed.”

82. “The Julian ancestry was so stellar, so august, that opportunities to fill the family coffers had passed.”

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