Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
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I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
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As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.
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In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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Silence is a source of great strenght.
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
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I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.
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The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.
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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
