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Diane Setterfield has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of…
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.…
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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…
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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…
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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,…
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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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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of…
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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…
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch…
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure…
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
— Jean Cocteau
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Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott,…
— Ben Affleck
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the…
— Philip Sidney
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I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.
— William Shakespeare
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Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by…
— Omar Khayyam
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As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to…
— Thomas Merton
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck
— W.C. Fields
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When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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