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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
Journalist
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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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When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.
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As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.
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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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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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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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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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She doesn't believe in dogs, Bridget said. Dogs are hardly an article of faith, Sylvie said.
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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
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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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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
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Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.
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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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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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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.
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They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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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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