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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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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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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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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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I am a totally public person.
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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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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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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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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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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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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 am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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