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One Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about…
- I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
- 'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
- This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this…
- The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to…
- Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the…
- If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One…
- 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,…
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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
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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