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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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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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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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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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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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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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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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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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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
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