"By the tits of Holy Agnes" — Hilary Mantel
"By the tits of Holy Agnes"
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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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Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the…
— Wild Bill Hickok
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I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we…
— George du Maurier
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What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a…
— John Yau
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I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC,…
— Felicity Jones
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When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"
— Agnes Denes
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Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula…
— Georg Baselitz
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
— Moliere
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…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can…
— Terry Pratchett
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There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence;…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Any instructions?” Carpenter said. “Yeah,” Shane said. “Shoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you don’t like.…
— Jennifer Crusie
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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
— Ken Follett
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Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat
— Terry Pratchett
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