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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:10:00 -

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:11:00 -

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:12:00 -

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:13:00 -

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:14:00 -

In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.

In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:15:00 -

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:16:00 -

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:17:00 -

I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:18:00 -

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:19:00 -

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

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