"It is almost a joke, but a joke…" — Hilary Mantel

"It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells."

— Hilary Mantel

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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make…
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains…
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense…
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a…
Beneath every history, another history.
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would…
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains…
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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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I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin

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