Hilary Mantel

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The things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

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Bring Up the Bodies

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time.

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Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

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Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources?

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Mantel, Hilary. Quoted in "The Art of Fiction No. 226." Interviewed by Mona Simpson. Paris Review, no. 212, Spring 2015, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6360/art-of-fiction-no-226-hilary-mantel.

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