Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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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.
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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.
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Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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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.
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The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The day with work that must be done snapped at her heels like an untrained pup.
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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.
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People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.
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I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.
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It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.
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There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
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I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
