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Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
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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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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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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
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Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
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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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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'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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