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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
Author
Novelist
Writer
Communities
Online
Loneliness
Expression
Community

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Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
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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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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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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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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.
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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)
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