Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.
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People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That's the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people.
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Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.
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The simplest answer is to act.
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Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining trait all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
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It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.
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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 in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.