Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. Margaret Thatcher takes away the nourishment of the nation.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.
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Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
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I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.
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Love is something that never goes out of style.
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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Nowadays I imagine people find freer and more accepting venues in blogs, on Tumblr and Instagram and Facebook, in the riot of shouting that trails in the wake of every news story. So there's always the pandemonium of the Internet, if you need to get your lunatic opinions out in public. I find most of that stuff a little insane-making and my preference is to encounter personal essays in the relatively sedate and stable universe of print, in literary quarterlies, magazines and books. But I'm sure you can find plenty of good stuff in lonely outposts all across the World Wide Web.
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Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. Margaret Thatcher takes away the nourishment of the nation.
