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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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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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I will write my way into another life.
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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