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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
Joanne Harris
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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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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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