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The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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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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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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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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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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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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