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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
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LA
California
Bright
Happiness
Makes
Time
Compresses
Dense

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