Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.
Hilary Mantel
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What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.
Brenda Shoshanna
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For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'
George Arthur Buttrick
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If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
Michael Graves
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Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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I think working with kids and seeing how kids are universally children - no matter what you do, they love playing on a bongo and they love drawing and they love playing - that is a great uniter.
Milana Vayntrub
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This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.
Terry Teachout
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Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
Umberto Eco
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But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .
Umberto Eco
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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
Pablo Picasso
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That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.
Edwin Meese
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Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.
Ellery Sedgwick
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In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
Silvio Berlusconi