What did Hilary Mantel mean by: [Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn’t fake the quality of her mind. - 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
+ Those who are made can be unmade. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 29, 2023, Hilary Mantel, 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
+ I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Narrative, Skills, 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
+ I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I’m mad. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Mad, Talking, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Garden, Hands, Happy, 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
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
