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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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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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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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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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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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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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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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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.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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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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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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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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