Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.
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If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.
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For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
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Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
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The real question is should we trust people who don't like cheese?
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.
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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
