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Story Quotes by Diane Setterfield
- A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
- All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about…
- 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…
- My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?…
- A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
- Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You…
- Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those…
- A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
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- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
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- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles