33 Quotes & Sayings By Lara Biyuts

Lara Biyuts’ award-winning debut novel Ruby, was published in January 2016 to critical acclaim. It won the Waterstones Book of the Year and the Betty Trask Award for New Writers and was longlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Love, Loss and What We Ate, was published in March 2017 and was nominated for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night...
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At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.) Lara Biyuts
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…but he realized he would never reconcile himself to life as something other than a prelude. What’s life’s meaning then? What is it? What does make the world go round, not letting hope die? What do people dream about, watching the endless flow of years? They dream. A dream, that’s it. We live for our only dream, which can lead us, hand in hand, through our life; for the dream we reconcile ourselves to any frustrations and we shall struggle for releasing its silky wings from the net of reality. (The right to a mistake.) . Lara Biyuts
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Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter. Lara Biyuts
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Catch sunbeams in a mirror! A reflection of a sunbeam can melt an iceberg. Lara Biyuts
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Looking through the ruby glass one cannot see the true colour of the sky. Lara Biyuts
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Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key. Lara Biyuts
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Art for Art’s Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty. Lara Biyuts
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Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law. Lara Biyuts
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Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well as any enumeration and description of dishes at dinner or in the kitchen should be mentioned only in case if all this has a strong consequent relation to the plot, but as an author, I can’t help mentioning all this, with no particular reason, just for love for my characters, desiring to give them something nice and pleasant. Melancholy grows a platinum rose. Affection grows a double rose. . Lara Biyuts
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Every morning is a reason to begin living again… in case if you have had a good sleep. If not, then begin living again, anyway, and take care of yourself! Lara Biyuts
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Have you ever asked yourself, where do Evil come from? No? But many ask the question, and I’ll tell you where there is Evil. Not in Darkness, as many believe, but in Garbling. Garbling turns Light into Darkness, and Darkness into Light. Either is precipitated by it into its non-existent universe. Garbling merges Chaos and Harmony -- not as their harmony -- but its own, garbled. Garbling rules here below. Lara Biyuts
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A demon, who serves to a warlock, begins tormenting his master, if he has not enough work. Talent is the demon. Lara Biyuts
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Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it’s a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can’t love others if he doesn’t love himself first. Lara Biyuts
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Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert. Lara Biyuts
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Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that may be, like a cemetery, a library will never stop being of use. Lara Biyuts
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Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy. Lara Biyuts
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Starfall in the sky as a result of anybody’s Fall here below? Lara Biyuts
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Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely. Lara Biyuts
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Every reader can live One Thousand and One Lives; every fiction author can have One Thousand and One Masks, and their talent can have One Thousand and One Facets. Lara Biyuts
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Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and wording the thought, thus contributing all the activity of your mind to the immortal culture of humankind and subsequently to your own immortality. Lara Biyuts
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It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds. Lara Biyuts
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I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise. Lara Biyuts
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Every cloud of confetti has a dark lining. Lara Biyuts
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Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars. Lara Biyuts
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I hate fallen angels. They can talk about nothing but their fall and sins. Lara Biyuts
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If you are an angle, all you can give is boredom. Lara Biyuts
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There is the title of one book In Underground One Can Meet Only Rats. And I'd re-phrase, In Cosmos One Can Meet Only Mutants, besides, rats are mutants too there, in cosmos, therefore, I'd rather walk on the ground. Lara Biyuts
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Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious--all right, not an icon, let him be our oriflamme. Lara Biyuts
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We are pagans. We deify each other. Lara Biyuts
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Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death. Lara Biyuts
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The bell tolling not for us, it’s time for bluebells. Lara Biyuts
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The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow? Lara Biyuts