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You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
— Hilary Mantel
He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.No, It passes through them, alas. — Hilary Mantel
Would they quarrel so much, if they were indifferent?
— Hilary Mantel
Her hands were large and knuckley and calloused, made to hold a rifle, not a needle.
— Hilary Mantel
You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.
— Hilary Mantel
The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.
— Hilary Mantel
Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.
— Hilary Mantel
Jesus Maria,' the boy says. 'The star that guides us to Bethlehem. I thought it was an engine for torture.
— Hilary Mantel
If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged but not until I'm down to a size eight. — Henriette Mantel
you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose.
— Hilary Mantel
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
— Hilary Mantel
Writing's like running downhill; can't stop if you want to.
— Hilary Mantel
If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.
— Hilary Mantel
Anne says, "It is all about me.
— Hilary Mantel
Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.
— Hilary Mantel
Do you know you can learn from pain?' But, he explains, the circumstances must be right. To learn, you must have a future:
— Hilary Mantel
he is sui generis, a scholar and a wit.
— Hilary Mantel
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
— Hilary Mantel
in case the dead ones rolled in late.
— Hilary Mantel
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
— Hilary Mantel
History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
— Hilary Mantel
My lord, what do you call a whore when she is a knight's daughter?" "Ah," the cardinal says, entering into the problem. "To her face, 'my lady.
— Hilary Mantel
The clock over the mantel in the beau parlor at the Milbank House ticked
— Adriana Trigiani
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
— Hilary Mantel
He never lives in a single reality, but in a shifting shadow-mesh of diplomatic possibilities.
— Hilary Mantel
If life is a chain of gold, sometimes God hangs a charm on it.
— Hilary Mantel
I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what i believe. I cannot unlive my life
— Hilary Mantel
I am always translating, he thinks: if not language to language, then person to person.
— Hilary Mantel
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
— Hilary Mantel
Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you.
— Hilary Mantel
The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.
— Hilary Mantel
And indeed, who can doubt that everything would be different and better, if only England were ruled by village idiots and their drunken friends?
— Hilary Mantel
I felt," he said, "irritated. It seemed a waste, I suppose. To come so far. To cross the sea. To die for ... " He shrugs. "God knows why.
— Hilary Mantel
People said - though this felt like a heresy - that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.
— Hilary Mantel
His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.
— Hilary Mantel
We shall have to develop a hand signal for "Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter." He is surprised the Italians have not done it.
— Hilary Mantel
Those who are made can be unmade.
— Hilary Mantel
I was bound to step out of line, if only because I did not know where the line was: if only because I did not know anything.
— Hilary Mantel
God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation.
— Hilary Mantel
In a generation everything can change.
— Hilary Mantel
Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know.
— Hilary Mantel
Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!
— Hilary Mantel
Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.
— Hilary Mantel
It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.
— Hilary Mantel
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
— Hilary Mantel
I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle.
— Henriette Mantel
They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.
— Hilary Mantel
I have an Oscar on my mantel.
— Irwin Winkler
He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.
— Hilary Mantel
I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.
— Hilary Mantel
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
— Hilary Mantel
By the hairy balls of Jesus
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It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
— Hilary Mantel
Gambling is not a vice, if you can afford to do it.
— Hilary Mantel
There is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it.390 — Hilary Mantel
But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?398 — Hilary Mantel
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.
— Hilary Mantel
There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word.
— Hilary Mantel
Occam's Razor shaves you closer.
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God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.
— Hilary Mantel
We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.
— Hilary Mantel
The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.
— Hilary Mantel
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
— Hilary Mantel
He needs guilty men. So he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged.
— Hilary Mantel
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
— Hilary Mantel
There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.
— Hilary Mantel
If a man spoke to you in that tone, you'd invite him to step outside and ask someone to hold your coat.378 — Hilary Mantel
A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;"Cromwell of Wriothesley — Hilary Mantel
Render me the texture of flesh. Pick me what it is, in the timbre of the voice, that marks out the living from the dead.
— Hilary Mantel
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
— Hilary Mantel
Fortitude ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
— Hilary Mantel
Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.
— Hilary Mantel
My migraine aura was now so severe that the world on the left had ceased to exist, except as an intermittent yellow flash.
— Hilary Mantel
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And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better.
— Hilary Mantel
