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Life Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and…
- For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
- It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women…
- When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people…
- The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant…
- I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would…
- It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at…
- So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
- The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch,…
- It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls,…
- The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509,…
- There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life,…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle