Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
It was unfortunate for other women who might come after Margaret Thatcher that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.
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Delay is the enemy of progress.
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Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.
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CNN’s Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that’s who we blame for Rick Sanchez.
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I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.
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We have to provide a roadmap for the Abuja peace process.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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You always feel bad when you see in the newspaper or on television that someone's suffered a tragedy. You might make a donation, but too often we're so wrapped up in our own situations we don't do everything we could to help out. This has certainly changed the way I'll look at these things in the future.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
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I love doing deals and operating companies.
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It was unfortunate for other women who might come after Margaret Thatcher that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.