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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
– Hilary Mantel

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  4. Feminism hasn’t failed, it’s just never been tried. – Hilary Mantel
  5. The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them. – Hilary Mantel
  6. …this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash. – Hilary Mantel
  7. His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed. – Hilary Mantel
  8. He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves. – Hilary Mantel
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  10. Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home. – Hilary Mantel
  11. He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins. – Hilary Mantel
  12. Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour. – Hilary Mantel
  13. Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind. – Hilary Mantel
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  15. I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up. – Hilary Mantel
  16. Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  17. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
  18. People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
  19. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  20. Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories – Nourhan Mamdouh
  21. The worst stories usually make you think: ‘but nobody had to die’.These are called true stories. – Moonshine Noire
  22. What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true? – Rick Chiantaretto
  23. What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true. – Rick Chiantaretto
  24. The more you believe, the more you’ll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway. – Will Advise
  25. He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  26. the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end. – Charles Bukowski
  27. …lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn’t ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. – Charles ens
  28. What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  30. In your absolute defiance against tyranny, lies and all odds; lies therein, your true moral strength. Rise! – Mamur Mustapha
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  35. Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic. – Joan Holub
  36. There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums. – David Mitchell
  37. …it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told … – John Geddes
  38. The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful – Lee BiceMatheson
  39. We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about ‘coming back,’ and so on. But they are all stories. – Steve Hagen
  40. We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality. – Danielle Ganek

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