Quotes by A. S. Byatt

A. S. Byatt

English novelist and poet

Lived from: 1936 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary)

Born: 24 august 1936

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  • And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
    Source: Possession (1990) Page 223
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  • Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.
    Source: Possession (1990)
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  • I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
    Source: Possession (1990)
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  • I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
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  • Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
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  • There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
    Source: Possession (1990) Postscript, Page 50
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