A. S. Byatt Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Secret Quotes

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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I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

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Regarding sex education: no secrets!

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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

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There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

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Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

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The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

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The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

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Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

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The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

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