Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
Hilary Mantel
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The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
J. D. Trout
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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
Lao Tzu
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
Miguel de Cervantes
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When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I fell a soul.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.
Eugene Ionesco
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The day with work that must be done snapped at her heels like an untrained pup.
Alfred Bertram Guthrie
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As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.
Andrew Niccol
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She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Oliver Stone
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
U Thant
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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
Barry Ritholtz
