Hilary Mantel Quotes

My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images of other people's unhappiness. Perhaps that was just the way the world manifested itself to me.

Hilary Mantel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 6, 1952

Topics

ChildhoodPeopleMeWorldPowerful

Alison Pill is the unsung hero of 'Three Tall Women' to me. She's extraordinary in this part, and she makes it look easy. I'm just in awe of her.

Joe Mantello

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I was not an activist.

Joe Biden

Activist

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

John Bright

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I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Andrew Sarris

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When you become president, they don't give you a magic wand that you wave. You have to get legislation passed. You have to get agencies to run programs.

Andrew Cuomo

WaveMagicYouRunBecomePresident

Prince Paul is another good friend; he's like an older brother. He'll criticise and be brutally honest with you. That's what I like about Paul.

MF Doom

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Michel de Montaigne

FearMostThing

My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.

Luke Rockhold

FutureMyselfKeep GoingGoalPay

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

Juan Goytisolo

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The hardest thing to do is dig deep and be patient about the things you're going to learn month to month and quarter to quarter.

Christina Tosi

DeepLearnYouBe PatientMonthDig

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

William O. Douglas

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