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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
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Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.
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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.
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Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.
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We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.
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