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Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
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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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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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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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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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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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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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Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?
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