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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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