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Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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A thing named is a thing tamed.
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I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
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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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One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
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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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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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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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