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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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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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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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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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Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
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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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What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
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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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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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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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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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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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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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As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
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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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