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A thing named is a thing tamed.
Joanne Harris
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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
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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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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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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. I never did, snapped Loki crossly. Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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