"My genius is not so frail a thing……" — Diane Setterfield
"My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen."
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Diane Setterfield
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78 Quotes by Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield has 78 quotes on this site.
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual…
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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…
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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think.…
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books…
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like…
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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…
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask…
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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…
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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…
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More Cowers Quotes
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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness…
— Dean Koontz
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See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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