"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

-- Hilary Mantel

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“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
“For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.”
“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”
“In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.”
“A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.”

Source : Elinor Glyn (1907). “Three Weeks”
“Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1821). “Fanny”, p.59
“Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.”
“My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.”

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