The Weight of the Old World

Hilary Mantel

A Place of Greater Safety

2015-07-20

“The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.”

A Place of Greater Safety, pg. 116


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