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Hilary Mantel Quotes

Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.

Beautiful Greece Inspiring

At any time, somebody can blow themselves up and take Americans with them. They can blow up an airplane; they can crash an airplane. That's something we have to worry about every day - we spend 40 billion dollars yearly on homeland security. That has nothing to do with Crusades or any of that other nonsense.

Time Day Airplane Worry Security Up

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Decision Mistake Never Politician

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

Mom Trying You Know Kid Up

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

Words People Facts Feel You Know

We don't own the team; we just rent it. The fans own it, and a lot of times, they haven't been happy with the renter.

Happy Team Rent Own Fans Been

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Father Man Blind May Wisest

Despite what one might gather from the shrill rantings of the leftist commentariat, for whom religion is a sort of disease, religious difference in the United States has rarely led to serious social strife. That is no small achievement, and one that virtually no other Western democracy can boast.

Achievement Religion Democracy Small

If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.

Wisdom Support Society Forward Think

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Beauty Everyone Everything Sees

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

New Independent Zealand New Zealand

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

Truth Truth Is Things Kinds Drawn

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