"People whose lives are not balanced by a……" — Diane Setterfield
"People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity."
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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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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
— David Attenborough
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because…
— Jenson Button
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
— Georg Brandes
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While…
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
— Frantz Fanon
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling…
— Bobby Jones
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage…
— John le Carre
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this…
— Enrico Fermi
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make…
— Isoroku Yamamoto
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