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Hilary Mantel

"He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world."

-- Hilary Mantel

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“The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience.”

Source : Martin Esslin (2009). “The Theatre of the Absurd”, p.25, Vintage
“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebodyâ€”really want himâ€”it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
“To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.”

Source : Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.110, Canon Press & Book Service
“She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.”
“I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.”
“I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.”
“The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.”
“Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be”

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