Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.
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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.
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I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.
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I know of only a few truisms, one being that if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.
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There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
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What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.
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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.'
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If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
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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.
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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.
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This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.
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Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
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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. . . .
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We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over.
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Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.
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I never want fear to stop me from doing anything else in my life. I never want fear to make me say no again. I never want fear to be even the slightest problem for me. And if I ever have just a tiny fearful thought, I want to be able to say no to it immediately.
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
