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.

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• I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Taken
  • Photography
  • Modeling

• Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Life
  • Home
  • My Life

• I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Religious
  • Human

• Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Work
  • Business
  • Dog

• The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Truth
  • Two
  • Half

• I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Live
  • Art
  • Fear

• The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

  

  J. D. Trout
  • Important
  • True
  • Knowledge

• 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
  • Listening
  • Silence
  • Meant

• 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
  • Dark
  • Study
  • Thoughts

• 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

• 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
  • Government
  • Enemy
  • Destroying

• The day with work that must be done snapped at her heels like an untrained pup.

  

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie
  • Work
  • Day
  • Snapped

• 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
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Currency

• 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
  • Reason
  • Fire
  • Dress

• Live for what you believe in ... and die for it too.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Live
  • Die
  • Believe In

• The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.

  

  Norman Davies
  • Write
  • Historian
  • Version

• Wealth, position, fame, and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those who reach the top are the ones who are not content with.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Service

• I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Historian
  • Biographies
  • Rivals