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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
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Came
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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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 read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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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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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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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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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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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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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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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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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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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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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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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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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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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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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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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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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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