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Sense 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…
- I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
- Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
- Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and…
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