"Without the past to cast its long shadow,……" — Diane Setterfield
"Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?"
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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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I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away…
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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a…
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At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters…
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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