People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. - Hilary Mantel

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We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Hilary Mantel

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

Asking, Identifying, Minorities, People

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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.

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I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

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I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

Historical, Novels, Past, Pegged, People

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

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It's time to be bold about who you really are.

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