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A S Byatt Quotes

It’s because I’m a feminist that I can’t stand women limiting other women’s imaginations. It really makes me angry Picture Quote #1

I’m more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they’re not Picture Quote #1

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It’s very agreeable once you get used to it Picture Quote #1

... it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors Picture Quote #1

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended Picture Quote #1

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure Picture Quote #1

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That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them Picture Quote #1

It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark Picture Quote #1

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm Picture Quote #1

I shall from time to time write a small clue so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded Picture Quote #1

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends Picture Quote #1

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful Picture Quote #1

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Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap’s versifying Picture Quote #1

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood Picture Quote #1

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has Picture Quote #1

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me Picture Quote #1

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs Picture Quote #1

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do Picture Quote #1

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Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink Picture Quote #1

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been Picture Quote #1

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame Picture Quote #1

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write Picture Quote #1

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It’s because I’m a feminist that I can’t stand women limiting other women’s imaginations. It really makes me angry (A S Byatt Quotes) I’m more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they’re not (A S Byatt Quotes) Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It’s very agreeable once you get used to it (A S Byatt Quotes) ... it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors (A S Byatt Quotes) The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended (A S Byatt Quotes) Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure (A S Byatt Quotes) That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them (A S Byatt Quotes) It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark (A S Byatt Quotes) Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm (A S Byatt Quotes) I shall from time to time write a small clue so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded (A S Byatt Quotes) Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends (A S Byatt Quotes) I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful (A S Byatt Quotes) Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap’s versifying (A S Byatt Quotes) Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood (A S Byatt Quotes) I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has (A S Byatt Quotes) I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me (A S Byatt Quotes) Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs (A S Byatt Quotes) I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do (A S Byatt Quotes) Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink (A S Byatt Quotes) There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been (A S Byatt Quotes) Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame (A S Byatt Quotes) I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write (A S Byatt Quotes)

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