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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.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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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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