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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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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!
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I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
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The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.
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