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Memory isn't a theme it's part of the human condition.

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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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
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By the tits of Holy Agnes
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My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
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This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.
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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.
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Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
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What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.
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Those who are made can be unmade.
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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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The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.
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He turns to the painting. I fear Mark was right. Who is Mark? A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer. Gregory says, Did you not know?
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I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.
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I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
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The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
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I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.
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I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
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I dislike pastiche it attracts attention to the language only.
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.
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I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.
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When people begin to talk about our island story my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
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