"Facts are the soil from which the story……" — Dorothy Dunnett
"Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort."
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Dorothy Dunnett
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29 Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett
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Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good…
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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in…
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination.…
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Music, the knife without a hilt,
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a…
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of…
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Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love…
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should…
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale…
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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a…
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about…
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