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There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime you have to draw the line somewhere.
Diane Setterfield
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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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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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My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.
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Tragedy alters everything.
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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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Reading can be dangerous.
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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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What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
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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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I have always been a reader I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy
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I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.
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The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won’t notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268
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One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
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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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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
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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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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.
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