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Outside our small safe place flies mystery.
A. S. Byatt
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A. S. Byatt
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 24
Literary Critic
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Sheffield
England
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy
Antonia Susan Drabble
Antonia Susan Duffy
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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I don't only write about English literature I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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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.
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You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.
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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
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Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.
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…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.
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