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Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett ist ein britischer Schriftsteller, der seine Werke im Stil der klassischen Thriller-Dramaturgie verfasst. Follett wurde durch seinen Roman Die Nadel bekannt, der in 30 Sprachen übersetzt wurde. Dieses Werk verkaufte sich rund zwölf Millionen Mal, wurde mit dem Edgar Award ausgezeichnet und mit Donald Sutherland verfilmt. Bis heute konnte Follett weltweit über 160 Millionen Bücher verkaufen.

✵ 5. Juni 1949
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Winter der Welt
Winter der Welt
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Sturz der Titanen
Die Tore der Welt
Winter der Welt
Winter der Welt
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Sturz der Titanen
Die Tore der Welt
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Ken Follett Berühmte Zitate

„Der Unwissende hält Ausländer für dumm - ohne zu begreifen, dass er in einem anderen Land ganz genauso dumm erscheinen würde.“

Ken Follett Kingsbridge

Quelle: Kingsbridge (Follett, 2020)

„das selbst sagen?«“

Ken Follett buch Die Tore der Welt

World Without End

„Die Ente schluckt den Wurm, der Fuchs tötet die Ente, die Männer erschießen den Fuchs und der Teufel jagt die Männer.“

Ken Follett

„Weißt du denn nicht, dass du die Seele verlierst, wenn du die Wahrheit über dich selbst abstreitest?“

Ken Follett buch Winter der Welt

Winter of the World

Ken Follett: Zitate auf Englisch

“The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“But desperate people find courage.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth

“Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'…”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.”

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“A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.”

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Ken Follett buch Sturz der Titanen

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“Why do you have to be the same as the others?… Most of them are stupid.”

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Ken Follett buch Winter der Welt

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“I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?”

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Ken Follett buch Winter der Welt

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“you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.”

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Ken Follett buch Die Tore der Welt

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“Hunger is the best seasoning.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”

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Ken Follett buch The Pillars of the Earth

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“And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.”

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Ken Follett buch Winter der Welt

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“President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.”

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Ken Follett buch Sturz der Titanen

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“Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.”

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“To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.”

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“She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.”

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“Little things please little minds.”

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Ken Follett buch Sturz der Titanen

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“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”

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