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" The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people. "
Joanne Harris
Internet
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" It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others. "
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" I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia. "
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" In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule. "
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" I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it. "
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" I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child. "
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" My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete. "
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" People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on. "
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" I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always. "
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