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You Quotes by A. S. Byatt
- I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're…
- Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
- I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
- I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
- I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
- I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be…
- In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
- There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
- The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
- If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God,…
- You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
- You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from…
- 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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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide