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I dislike pastiche it attracts attention to the language only.
Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 6
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Hilary Mary Thompson
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel
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[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
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