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Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
Harlan Coben
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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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We all think that we are uniquely complex, that no one can see what we are thinking - yet we also believe that we have the rare ability to read others. This fascinates me at the moment.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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