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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they dont confo

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they dont conform to the reality thats around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. – Kate Atkinson

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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. Theres nothing that says I cant write a page of full stops. There is no should involved, although you wouldnt know that from literary reviews and critics. – Kate Atkinson

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Freedom
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My father was an autodidact. It wasnt a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasnt allowed to go. – Kate Atkinson

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Education
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. – Kate Atkinson

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947

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Kindness and intelligence dont always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. – Lily Tomlin

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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination. – Edmund Wilson

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Biographical sketch, in fugitive crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford – John Pinkerton, 1799

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