A. S. Byatt Quotes
Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
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Kendrick Lamar is a phenomenal artist whose work has served as a catalyst to raise a new level of consciousness for this generation. His message challenges the status quo and motivates listeners to rethink our society's institutions.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss
