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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 you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.
— Carl Sagan
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Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching…
— Geoffrey Canada
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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
— Jonas Salk
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I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make…
— Tom Hiddleston
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In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me…
— Neil Young
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I've crippled more people than polio.
— The Undertaker
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Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
— Unknown Author
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a…
— Melinda Gates
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I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years…
— Wilma Rudolph
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It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great…
— Zach Braff
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The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
— Albert Sabin
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Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to…
— Carl Sagan
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