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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I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.
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God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
