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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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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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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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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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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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If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
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Anything that can be dreamed is true.
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I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
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Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
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I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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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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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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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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