"You did not so much mind being -conventionally-……" — A. S. Byatt
"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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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 Annihilating Quotes
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
— Sylvia Plath
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Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its…
— Andrew Marvell
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better…
— Yiyun Li
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By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore…
— Jennifer Beals
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You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential…
— Jennifer Beals
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It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness,…
— Pamela Geller
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins,…
— John Milton
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A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each…
— Michael Silverblatt
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It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all…
— Oswald Spengler
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I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on.
— Edmund Kemper
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By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in…
— Arthur Symons
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