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From Quotes by Diane Setterfield
- Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then…
- I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and…
- I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
- And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at…
- Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
- You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level…
- People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.
- My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
- My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
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