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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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If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this…
— George Washington
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My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on…
— Victor Hugo
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I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
— Kage Baker
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Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order…
— Meher Baba
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How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Since I'm known as a 'rich person', I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat.…
— Aristotle Onassis
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Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.
— Dolly Parton
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Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
— Mary Oliver
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I…
— Diane Setterfield
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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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