"Human beings love stories because they safely show……" — A. S. Byatt
"Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends."
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101 Quotes by A. S. Byatt
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be…
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly…
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask…
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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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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from…
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are…
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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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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More Beginnings Quotes
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
— William Throsby Bridges
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I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs…
— Paula Abdul
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Good seasons start with good beginnings.
— Sparky Anderson
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
— Thomas Paine
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
— Aberjhani
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies…
— Louise Erdrich
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new…
— Amby Burfoot
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
— Laozi
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked…
— Hal Borland
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