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Thinking Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be…
- I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
- I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
- I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
- 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 weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant…
- He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.
- 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…
- She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
- 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,…
- You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with…
- He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But…
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