Popular Quotes by A.S. Byatt

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• Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

  A.S. Byatt#Letters 75

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• History writing infect after a time a mans sense of himself...

  A.S. Byatt#Self awareness 66

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• The individual appears for an instant joins the community of thought modifies it and dies but the species that dies not reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

  A.S. Byatt#Knowledge 61

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• Funny way to spend your life though studying another chaps versifying.

  A.S. Byatt#Literature 60

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• my Solitude is my Treasure the best thing I have.

  A.S. Byatt#Solitude 53

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• The reading eye must do the work to make them live and so it did again and again never the same life twice as the artist had intended.

  A.S. Byatt#Mythology 25

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• It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior out of the wild night into the firelight out of the howling dark.

  A.S. Byatt#Ghosts 24

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• Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity the identity of a culture place language and history the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.

  A.S. Byatt#Identity 21

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• Contemporary was in those days 1953synonymous with modern as it had not been before and is not now 1977.

  A.S. Byatt#Time 19

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• Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

  A.S. Byatt#Words 18

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