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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
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Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
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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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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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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 great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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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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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
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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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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
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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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Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.
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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.
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I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
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She doesn't believe in dogs, Bridget said. Dogs are hardly an article of faith, Sylvie said.
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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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Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.
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