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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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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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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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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 not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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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 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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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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I will write my way into another life.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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