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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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California
Love
Choice
Came
Choices
Action

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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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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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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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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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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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