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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
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Communities
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Loneliness

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Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.
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You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
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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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You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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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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Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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