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Plot Quotes by A. S. Byatt
- Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs…
- You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny…
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- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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