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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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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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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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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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 don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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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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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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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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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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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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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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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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