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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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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if…
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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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My voice is clotted with unshed tears.
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Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way…
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Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and…
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Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.
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I kind of eat anything, so I guess I have to work on that. But all in moderation. When I was in…
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After a few months' acquaintance with Europeancoffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the…
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