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Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale Quotes: A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
         

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.


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I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.



For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.



Of course I loved books more than people.

Of course I loved books more than people.



But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.



When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.



A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.



What better place to kill time than a library?

What better place to kill time than a library?



I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.



Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.



My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.





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