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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

A. S. Byatt

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A. S. Byatt
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 24
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Sheffield
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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy
Antonia Susan Drabble
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