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Hilary Mantel  Quotes
Once you’re labeled as mentally ill, and that’s in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

—Hilary Mantel

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HeroismHistorical-FictionInspiration
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By the hairy balls of Jesus

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JesusWolf-Hall
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Possibly it’s something women do: spend time imagining what it’s like to be each other.

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No man as godly as George, the only fault he finds with God is that he made folk with too few orifices. If George could meet a woman with a quinny under her armpit, he...

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Historical-Fiction
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August...

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French-RevolutionPoliticsRobespierre
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For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

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Anne-BoleynFeelingsHenry-Viii
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Camille, you have a son, and your wife is very well, and is asking you to be at home, right now.

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ParenthoodWit
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Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king’s will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will...

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Catherine-Of-AragonWit
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I aim to make the fiction flexible so that it bends itself around the facts as we have them. Otherwise I don’t see the point. Nobody seems to understand that. Nobody seems to share my...

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This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a...

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Law
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The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow...

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GovernmentalityLife-Experience
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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

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BookBooksFiction
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His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

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An-Occult-History-Of-BritainAngerGrief
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Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you want to...

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Writing-AdviceWriting-CraftWriting-Life
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I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he’s not, my mother said.

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Henry-ViiHistorical-FictionHistory
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1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris:The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs to him. This is a fundamental rule of natural law, human rights and civil...

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IronyPoliticsRights
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Talking to Robespierre, one tried to make the right noises; but what is right, these days? Address yourself to the militant, and you find a pacifist giving you a reproachful look. Address yourself to the...

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CharacterFrench-Revolution
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You said,’ Camille protested, ‘that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It’s true, everybody saw you doing it, boasting in Italian and rolling your eyes and doing your...

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Humourous
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It’s just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it’s quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.Pg.406

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PersuasionRichard-CromwellSales
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In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and...

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ConsummationHenry-ViiiHumor
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He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. ‘Of course there will be a revolution,’ he said. ‘You are making a nation of Cromwells. But we can go beyond Cromwell,...

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ConfrontationRevolution
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I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed on a traffic accident. Two months after, King Philippe found in a gutter,...

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AmbitionFrench-Revolution
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So much has been said between them that it is needless to add a marginal note. It is not for him now to gloss the text of their dealings, nor append a moral.

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Friendship
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The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned up in his own writing desk. A tradesman arrived with fabric she had...

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GriefLoss
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Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

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HumanityHungerMonsters
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Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest, if not to win,...

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Historical-Fiction
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The multitude,” Cavendish says, “is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down–for the novelty of the thing.

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Politics
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To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king’s whims. If he...

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Memories
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I tell you, dear Citizen Camille—it’s not the deaths I can’t stand. It’s the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.

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French-RevolutionTerror
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But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the...

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Chronic-PainEndometriosisFeminism
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I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.

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HumourRevolution
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As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve...

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BeliefsMartyrsThomas-More
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Very. What is all this harping on intoxication?

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Last night he kept the vigil alone. He lay awake, wishing Liz back; waiting for her to come and lie beside him. It’s true he is at Esher with the cardinal, not at home at...

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Grief
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Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

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Every time you go to see Hamlet you don’t expect it to have a happy ending…you’re still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

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Creative-WritingHenry-ViiiHistorical-Fiction
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Those who are made can be unmade.

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LifeLife-LessonsMade
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The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

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HistoryYouth
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It’s the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their...

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History
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Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

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Entirely-Beloved-CromwellFantasyHenry-Viii
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Your fear is, that if you marry Adèle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than anything else in the world, more than patriotism, more than democracy. If your...

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DutyPatriaRevolution
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He knows different now. It’s the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we...

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DeathGhostsHistory
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When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can’t be so, you don’t get demons our side of the river, the guards won’t let...

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DemonsDreamsFear
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He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

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Gender-RolesGender-StereotypesHumorous
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It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.

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Journalism
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But you see, Crumb, it is hard to give up what you have worked at since you were a boy. There were some Italian visitors once, they were cheering us on, Brandon and myself, and...

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Historical-Fiction
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Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

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ExperienceInnocenceLife-Lessons
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I picked up a snake once. In Italy.””Why did you do that?””For a bet.””Was it poisonous?””We didn’t know. That was the point of the bet.””Did it bite you?””Of course.””Why of course?””It wouldn’t be much of...

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Good-StoryItalySnakes
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Feminism hasn’t failed, it’s just never been tried.

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Feminism
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She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.

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Fiction
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