"A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story."

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Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

Diane Setterfield

#Stories Quotes #Birth Quotes #Continuation Quotes

“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
“I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.”
“The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.”
“A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito”
“An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.”
“It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.”
“I've been working on a graphic about carbon emissions. It's an incredibly simple graphic - a bunch of blocks and a table below it - but it's taken me three weeks to design. For some reason it just wasn't working. Then finally I realized there was a number present, which I was rendering in each version, that wasn't necessary for the understanding of the piece. This figure was getting in the way and distracting from the main flow of the narrative. As soon as I pulled that graphic out of the design, it sprang into focus. Suddenly it worked.”
“To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.”

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