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Time Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- 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 or market. It…
- History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
- 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 once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book,…
- You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
- Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you…
- 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…
- I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background…
- Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani