"At New Year's he had given Anne a……" — Hilary Mantel
"At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people."
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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel has 109 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains…
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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…
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In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone…
— Anne Robinson
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life,…
— Shirley Hazzard
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Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who…
— Anne Hathaway
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Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters…
— Tessa Dare
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work?…
— Laura Dern
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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker
— Patty Duke
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I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who…
— Natalie Dormer
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No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.
— Anne Shirley
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I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex,…
— Otto Frank
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The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft…
— Andrew Sarris
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