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    Hilary Mantel
    “You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: human-nature, men
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: adversity, childhood-neglect, endurance, survival
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    Hilary Mantel
    “At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: humor
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Arrange your face”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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    Hilary Mantel
    “For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: breeding, generations, improve
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    Hilary Mantel
    “When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: government, laws, magic, spells, words
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    Hilary Mantel
    “No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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    Hilary Mantel
    “...there is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it."
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    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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    Winston Graham
    “When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.”
    ― Winston Graham, Warleggan
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    Winston Graham
    “The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down.” “Otherwise,” said Dr. Halse, “we will have you committed for contempt of court.” Ross bowed slightly. “I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.”
    ― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
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    Winston Graham
    “It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...”
    ― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
    tags: broken-heart, love, poldark
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    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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    John Fowles
    “The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

    "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."

    "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
    ― John Fowles, The Magus
    tags: betrayal, hitler, tragedy, war
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    John Fowles
    “I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Samuel Beckett
    “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
    tags: failure, perseverance
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    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: life, planets, space-travel
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    Samuel Beckett
    “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: crying, equilibrium, inspirational, tears
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: existentialism, failure, inspirational
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    Samuel Beckett
    “I can't go on, I'll go on.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
    tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."

    Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot

    I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. ”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: french
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Endgame
    tags: beckett, endgame, funny, unhappiness-nothing
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    Samuel Beckett
    “I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Endgame
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Words are all we have.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Nothing is more real than nothing.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Molloy
    tags: good-advice, hide, hunt, hunted, motto, waiting
    157 likes

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  • #30
    “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
    ― James Michener
    tags: writing
    1338 likes



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