Jim Crace Quotes
I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.
Radford, Ceri. "Jim Crace interview: 'I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.'" The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 13 Feb. 2013.
The debate was on the concept of a National Fast Day. Thomas Jefferson, who rarely spoke or debated made an exception and strongly opposed the proposal of which Adams was a prime supporter. Jefferson carried the motion but Adams had sharply rebuked Jefferson’s lack of piety to the degree that he feared that he had insulted and angered Jefferson with whom he agreed on most issues. Jefferson, however, appeared not to be insulted at all, and after the debate took the chair next to Adams. The incident was the subject of a famous letter from Benjamin Rush to Adams years later. It is not clear whether Jefferson was being particularly magnanimous and forgiving or as some suspect did not regard being accused of a lack of religiosity as an insult at all. Later, of course, the two became major political enemies, and then became friends after they both were out of politics.
James Crace is an English writer and novelist. His novels include Quarantine, which was judged Whitbread Novel of 1998, and Harvest, which won the 2015 International Dublin Literary Award, the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize.
