"The old always think the world is getting……" — Hilary Mantel
"The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey."
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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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I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.
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Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.
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