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A. S. Byatt Quotes

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: August 24, 1936

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Painting Little Things Learn You Map

To me, success is seeing that justice is done.

Success Justice Me Seeing Done

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Constitution Worth Nothing Bubble

America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.

Advertising America Prescription Drugs

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

Value People You Price Nonsense Any

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Water Wrong Go Sugar Nothing Bubble

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams Age Old Age Youth Look Old

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

Freedom Responsibility Thought Become

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian.

Marriage Romantic Feel Comedy Kind

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

Education Back Early Vote Office

You always respect the vets.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Respect You Always

'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't.

Life Magic Crisis Blood Say Pilot

People who go into show business are screwed up.

Business People Go Up Show Business

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