"History is always changing behind us, and the……" — Hilary Mantel
"History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it."
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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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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all…
— Jimmy Carter
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help…
— Alan Valentine
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In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're…
— Byron Katie
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The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness…
— Pema Chodron
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Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
— Ikue Mori
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We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be…
— Marjorie Garber
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I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have…
— Michael Kors
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A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you…
— Miles Davis
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The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an…
— Anderson Cooper
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Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever…
— Frank Stella
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Reality is cruel. All of the naivete is going to be removed. Reality is always changing, and it is always…
— Hideki Yukawa
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