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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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It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem…
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Tessa looked quickly to Will, but he only crossed the room as he always did to lean against the fireplace mantel. Cecily…
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I have an Oscar on my mantel.
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I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen…
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