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No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.
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The past is what you take with you.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.
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Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.
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The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
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Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.
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You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
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She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
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