"No mere human can stand in a fire…" — A. S. Byatt
"No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed."
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101 Quotes by A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt has 101 quotes on this site.
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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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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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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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More Consumed Quotes
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
— Dave Barry
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not…
— Erma Bombeck
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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
— Jimmy Buffett
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You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and…
— Jim Carrey
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The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
— Nick Clegg
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
— Antisthenes
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We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to…
— Watchman Nee
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When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.
— Wes Fesler
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It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you…
— Jonathan Ive
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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really…
— John Owen
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To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is…
— Rajneesh
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