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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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A thing named is a thing tamed.
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
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What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
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If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
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Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
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To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.
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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
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Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.
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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
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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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You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.
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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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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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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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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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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
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