Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.
Hilary Mantel
Quotes to Explore
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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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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
William Golding
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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.
Oliver D. Crisp
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Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.
William S. Burroughs
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But by all means, keep moving.
Martin Luther King, Jr.