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I carried recipes in my head like maps.

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
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She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!
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We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.
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