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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'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old…
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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy…
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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You made me feel so regret in dating you but all the same am happy with the lips am kissing now, sorry…
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