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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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I am a totally public person.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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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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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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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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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 control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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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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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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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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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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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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