201 Quotes by Diane Setterfield
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Kita hidup seperti penonton yang datang terlambat ke bioskop: kita harus mengejar ketertinggalan sebaik-baiknya, menebak permulaan dari bentuk peristiwa-peristiwa lanjutannya.
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The river is of no use to a yorkshire cat, it is the moors he is looking for.
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Any governess, after the few hours I have had in this house, would have a full and clear picture of the task awaiting her, but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.
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People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them.
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What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
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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 did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night’s sleep cannot cure.
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It doesn’t do to get attached to these secondary characters. It’s not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they’re gone for good.
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There is something about words.
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