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Kate Atkinson is a celebrated British author, recognized for her crime novels and historical fiction. Born in 1951, she has garnered critical acclaim for her intricate plots and compelling characters. Atkinson's writing frequently delves into themes of morality, identity, and the passage of time.

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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?”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Should Believe Kind Mean I Can Happens Form Tree Buddhism Ego Suspects Retreat Because I Can Zen Buddhism

Author:Kate Atkinson

“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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Author:Kate Atkinson

“I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.”

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Author:Kate Atkinson

“Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.”

Thinking Giving Book Give Me More Time Time To Think

Author:Kate Atkinson

“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Enjoy Interesting Gone Strange Periods Creating Photograph Atmosphere Fascinating Slips Surreal Most Interesting Ambience

Author:Kate Atkinson

“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.”

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Author:Kate Atkinson

“I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.”

Book:Human Croquet: A Novel

Source: Human Croquet: A Novel

“I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.”

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Book:Emotionally Weird: A Novel

Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel

“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.”

Thinking Should Trying No Point

Author:Kate Atkinson

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Born: 1951
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