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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
Joanne Harris
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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
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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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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
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A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
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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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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
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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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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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