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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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LA
California
Always
Unfolding
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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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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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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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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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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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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
Ann Patchett
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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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. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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