A. S. Byatt Quotes
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
