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Ann Beattie
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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
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Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.
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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
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the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
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Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.
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It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.
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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
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Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.
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