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Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, née le 3 juillet 1964 à Barnsley dans le Yorkshire, est une romancière britannique.

Née d'un père anglais et d'une mère française, elle explore dans ses romans avec finesse et d'un style alerte les thèmes du folklore, des racines familiales, de la magie et de la gastronomie. Son roman Chocolat a connu un grand succès et a fait l'objet d'une adaptation cinématographique sous le titre Le Chocolat, avec Johnny Depp et Juliette Binoche. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. juillet 1964  •  Autres noms جوآن هریس
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Joanne Harris: Citations en anglais

“You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.”

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Joanne Harris livre Blackberry Wine

Source: Blackberry Wine

“It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.”

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Joanne Harris livre Five Quarters of the Orange

Source: Five Quarters of the Orange

“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.”

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Joanne Harris livre Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

Source: Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

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Joanne Harris livre Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

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Joanne Harris livre Five Quarters of the Orange

Source: Five Quarters of the Orange

“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”

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Joanne Harris

Source: The Girl with No Shadow

“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.”

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“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”

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Joanne Harris livre Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

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“Love not often, but forever.”

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Joanne Harris

Source: Holy Fools

“Places have their own characters…. But the people begin to look the same.”

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Joanne Harris livre Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“A thing named is a thing tamed.”

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Joanne Harris livre Runemarks

Source: Runemarks

“Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.”

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Joanne Harris livre The Lollipop Shoes

Source: The Lollipop Shoes

“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

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“The process of giving is without limits.”

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Joanne Harris livre Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.”

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Joanne Harris

Source: Gentlemen and Players

“I speak as I must and cannot be silent.”

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Joanne Harris livre Runemarks

Source: Runemarks

“I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines”

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Joanne Harris livre Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”

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Joanne Harris

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”

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Joanne Harris

Source: The Girl with No Shadow

“Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time,… some lies can be true,… broken faith may be restored.”

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Joanne Harris livre Blackberry Wine

Source: Blackberry Wine

“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”

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Joanne Harris livre Runemarks

Source: Runemarks

“To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think… This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.”

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Joanne Harris livre Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy…. The magic of everyday things.”

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Joanne Harris livre Blackberry Wine

Source: Blackberry Wine

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme”

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Joanne Harris livre Chocolat

Source: Chocolat