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Quote by A. S. Byatt

“I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.”

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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

“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”

Knows Dream Found Wish Known Becoming Patches Becoming You Rocky Road

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”

Movement Cat Discworld Spray

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.”

People Want Sleep

Author:Veronica Roth

“He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.”

Enemy Moved Circles Centre Moved On Nemesis

Author:Terry Pratchett

“After a while you learn that everything stops.”

Book:Lunar Park

Source: Lunar Park

“So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.”

People Knows Children Important Kids Today Lying Mother Effort Heard Absolutes Vaccines Very Sad Sad Things Measles Pertussis

Author:Bill Gates

“The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms”

World Facts Form Ocean Uncertainty Islands Lakes Continents Vast Ocean

Book:Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Source: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

“Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.”

Firsts Responsibility Spacecraft

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.”

Trying Self Revealing

Author:A. S. Byatt

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