"One gets so used to one's own horrors,……" — Diane Setterfield

"One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people."

— Diane Setterfield

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78 Quotes by Diane Setterfield

Diane Setterfield has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual…
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like…
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think.…
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books…
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like…
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the…
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask…
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually…
Of course I loved books more than people.
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the…

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And we forget because we must and not because we will. — Matthew Arnold
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working… — Mary Kay Ash
I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out… — Aaliyah
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. — Dan Aykroyd
We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And… — Michele Bachmann
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard… — Amy Adams
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery,… — Mikhail Bakunin
I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still… — Amy Adams
There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media -… — Alec Baldwin
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that… — Christian Bale

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