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Kate Middleton, as she was, appeared to have been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished.
Of the Duchess of Cambridge
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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
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It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.
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So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Hilary Mantel
Born:
July 6, 1952
Died:
September 22, 2022
(aged 70)
Bio:
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction.
Known for:
Wolf Hall (2009)
Bring Up the Bodies (2012)
Beyond Black (2005)
A Place of Greater Safety (2006)
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (2014)
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