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Interview · Magazine

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?

Hilary Mantel

2015

★ 1.0

Novel · Historical literature

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.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 1.1

Scientific literature

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Biology · 1865

★ 1.9

Novel · Historical literature

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.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 1.9

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

State Tamperings with Money and Banks · 1858

★ 3.5

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

Progress: Its Law and Cause · 1857

★ 3.6

Novel · Historical literature

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.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 3.6

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