Psychology Quotes by Hilary Mantel

10 Psychology quotes by Hilary Mantel

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Hilary Mantel’s narrative precision also informs her view of the mind. Across ten brief quotes, she explores how storytelling, memory, and perception shape our inner worlds, offering a literary‑leaning glimpse into psychological nuance.

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“It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation. “Whom”

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I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

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“It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation.”

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[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

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In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the…

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“A printing press that can write its own books? A mind that thinks about itself? If I don’t have it, at least…

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“But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went…

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Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact…

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“Hérault, Fabre thinks: and his mind drifts back—as it tends to, these days— to the Café du Foy. He’d been giving readings…

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“He finds he cannot think of the dying men at all. Into his mind instead strays the picture of More on the…

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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when…

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At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to…

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“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It…

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“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind…

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“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need…

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“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I…

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Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

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“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our…

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“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she…

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“Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my…

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I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the…

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“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a dozen deaths,…

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