I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and … - Hilary Mantel

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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Hilary Mantel

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

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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.

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

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The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

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Paul R. Ehrlich

I don't like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that's a trivial point compared to saving the creation. I'd much rather have half of the people in the country be creationists and work really hard to save the creation than have everybody be evolutionists and be destroying the planet.

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Performing in front of my fans is what I love to do and I hope I get to do it forever.

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