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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 throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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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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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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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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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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