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A. S. Byatt Quotes

1936–2023 England

Dame Antonia Susan Byatt DBE (24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023) was an English novelist, critic and academic. She was usually known as A.

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Also known as: Byatt, A. S.

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I shall from time to time write a small Clue — so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.

Possession (1990)

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

Sugar and Other Stories (1987)

Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.

Possession (1990)

And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.

Possession (1990)

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.

Possession (1990)

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