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Into Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an…
- And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of…
- My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
- I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
- Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
- Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it…
- Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter…
- It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
- You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and…
- Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you…
- Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong