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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
Diane Setterfield
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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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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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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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But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
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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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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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Reading can be dangerous.
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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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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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In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime you have to draw the line somewhere.
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