“It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.”
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 15, “Lake of Glass” (p. 469).
“It's hard to discover that you're hated.”
Headline of his "Cardinal's Column", The Catholic New World, about the September 11 attacks (September 23, 2001)
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