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A. S. Byatt
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A. S. Byatt
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 24
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Sheffield
England
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy
Antonia Susan Drabble
Antonia Susan Duffy
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Writer
Alone
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The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.
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One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.
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Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.
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She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.
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There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.
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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.
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Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.
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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.
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Lists are a form of power.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I was no good at being a child.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.
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