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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.
Diane Setterfield
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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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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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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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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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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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Reading can be dangerous.
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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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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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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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opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
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As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
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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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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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What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
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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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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
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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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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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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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