A. S. Byatt Quotes

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

A. S. Byatt

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• In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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