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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
Journalist
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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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