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opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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Inhaled
Sharp
Dry
Opening
Smell
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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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I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
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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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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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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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