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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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Obviously over the years, it's been America, it's been Europe. It's all been very kind of divided between those two continents. It's…
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,…
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No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization,…
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
— William Golding
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Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would…
— Colleen McCullough
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Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents.…
— John Francis
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