What did Hilary Mantel mean by: I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? - Hilary Mantel Author · England Copy
+ I’ve got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Body, Ideas, Mind, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ [Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn’t fake the quality of her mind. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Class, Fake, Mind, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ Those who are made can be unmade. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 29, 2023, Hilary Mantel, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Home, Ideas, Travel, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Behinds, Past, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Flesh, Heart, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Adults, Preparation, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ For what’s the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Children, Generations, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. - William Morris Designer · England
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Explain - Leonardo da Vinci Painter · Italy
I don’t like having too many projects in the pipeline. I like to focus on what’s at hand. - Jean Dujardin Actor · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. - William Howard Adams Historian · USA
