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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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Online
Loneliness
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Communities

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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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A thing named is a thing tamed.
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And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.
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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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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
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To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.
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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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