"It follows that if you are not a……" — Hilary Mantel
"It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases."
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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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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct…
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite…
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic…
— John Berger
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the…
— William Blake
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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my…
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct…
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine.…
— Samuel Wilks
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If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.…
— Sun Tzu
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It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty…
— Alexander Hamilton
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