"Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice." — Hilary Mantel
"Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice."
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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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Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it…
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough…
— Harlan Coben
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My mother used to dress rather risqué when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always…
— Drew Barrymore
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The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people…
— Unknown Author
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I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a…
— Luke Evans
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In hindsight everything is much clearer.
— Bart Cummings
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
— Adam Brody
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Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.
— Helen Reddy
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I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and…
— Dara Wier
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Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
— Clive James
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