"Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging,……" — Kate Atkinson
"Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an education…"
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49 Quotes by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson has 49 quotes on this site.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely…
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They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and…
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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics…
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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some…
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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
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Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a…
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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.…
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More Acquired Quotes
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
— Franklin P. Adams
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
— H. Rap Brown
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
— Smedley Butler
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
— Lord Chesterfield
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
— Kate Chopin
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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