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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:49:00 -

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:50:00 -

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:51:00 -

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:52:00 -

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:53:00 -

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:54:00 -

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:55:00 -

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:56:00 -

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:57:00 -

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:58:00 -

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

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