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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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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 will write my way into another life.
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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
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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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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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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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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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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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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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