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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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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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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 don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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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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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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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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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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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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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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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
Ann Patchett