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Quote by A. S. Byatt

“Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.”

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A. S. Byatt is a celebrated British novelist, recognized for her intricate narratives and literary style. Born on August 24, 1936, she has made substantial contributions to literature with her distinctive voice and storytelling. more

“The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.”

World Mind Humans Hair Lovers Stones Green Plant Metaphor Caught Flesh Golden Grey Stains Amber Reptiles

Book:A Stone Woman (Storycuts)

Source: A Stone Woman (Storycuts)

“Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.”

Narrative

Book:Still Life

Source: Still Life

“Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.”

Action Harm Avert

Book:The Children's Book

Source: The Children's Book

“Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.”

Ifs Writing Wells Might Reading Particular Stones

Author:A. S. Byatt

“The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.”

Sometimes Dark Distance Israel

Author:Matthew Henry

“Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.”

People Real Voice Love Is Fans Singers Being Real Heartfelt Stay True Faking It Business Change

Author:George Jones

“Ive had about 140 albums released, and Ive done everything I wanted to do.”

Done Wanted Albums

Author:Hank Snow

“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.”

“Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.”

Thinking Mind Stills Stage Right Now Happenings Making Up

Author:Patsy Cline

“Im gonna be something one of these days.”

These Days

Author:Patsy Cline

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