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Of course I loved books more than people.
Diane Setterfield
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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.
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What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
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There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name.
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
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What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
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Reading can be dangerous.
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
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But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.
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My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
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