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She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.
– Kate Atkinson

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  1. The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
  2. It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  3. Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. – Emma Thompson
  4. Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life. – Fred Whitehead
  5. the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. – Oscar Wilde
  6. Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin. – Hunter Shea
  7. You can never be happily married to the one you are not happily in-a-relationship with. – Olaotan Fawehinmi
  8. It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
  9. Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
  10. Pam wasn’t what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her. – Kate Atkinson
  11. Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. – Kate Atkinson
  12. They were lucky. They’d been given history. – Kate Atkinson
  13. The mind is a fathomless mystery. – Kate Atkinson
  14. But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country – The Rest Of My Life. – Kate Atkinson
  15. Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. – Kate Atkinson
  16. Popular versus literary-”a false divide? – Kate Atkinson
  17. In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. – Kate Atkinson
  18. The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door. – Kate Atkinson
  19. All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy’s. – Kate Atkinson
  20. Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness – Kate Atkinson
  21. The past is what you take with you. – Kate Atkinson
  22. You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. – Kate Atkinson
  23. If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus. – Kate Atkinson
  24. So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements. – Kate Atkinson
  25. was there a store somewhere full of unwanted secrets? – Kate Atkinson
  26. If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn’t mind being their mother. – Kate Atkinson
  27. She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn’t even have the strength to feel guilty. – Kate Atkinson
  28. Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have ‘they lived happily ever after – Santosh Avvannavar
  29. And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End. – Jon Scieszka
  30. …and they all lived as happily as they allowed themselves to be. – Steffani Raff
  31. And they…LIVED! Life isn’t always -˜Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless. – Carmen DeSousa
  32. The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  33. A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
  34. The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. – Edwin Muir
  35. As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. – Stephen Colbert
  36. Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel-”and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. – Elizabeth Hardwick
  37. A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
  38. You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
  39. What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I’d outgrown the novel I’d once been so happy to live in – Jonathan Franzen
  40. What a pity it is that we’ve lived the lives that we’ve lived. – Katherine Ewell

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