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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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Hilary Mantel
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 6
Essayist
Film Critic
Literary Critic
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Hilary Mary Thompson
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel
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If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.
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To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.
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What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.
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[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.
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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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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
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It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.
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Memory isn't a theme it's part of the human condition.
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It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.
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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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The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.
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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
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I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
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History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
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The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.
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[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
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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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