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Hilary Mantel has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen…
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the…
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience…
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Beneath every history, another history.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that…
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing…
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on…
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,…
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To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral.…
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The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by…
— John Pawson
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We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the…
— Sherry Turkle
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Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's…
— Carl Sagan
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Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is…
— Francis Crick
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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…
— Hilary Mantel
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I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
— Alan Moore
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The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The…
— Said Nursi
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