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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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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 think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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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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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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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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