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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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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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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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
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Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
