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Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

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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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
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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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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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I like autumn. The drama of it the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.
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