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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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Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still.
— Katherine Harris
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Moving slowly enables us to learn faster.
— Paulo Coelho
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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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…
— Diane Setterfield
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But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but…
— Harlan Coben
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But they love each other," Clary said, appalled. "Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other…
— Cassandra Clare
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You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you…
— Napoleon Hill
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Be not afraid of moving slowly, be afraid of standing still
— Maddie_b
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