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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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The process of giving is without limits.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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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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Everything comes home, my mother used to say every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped it's part of what makes us who we are.
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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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A thing named is a thing tamed.
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People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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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'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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