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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You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.
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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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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.
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The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.
