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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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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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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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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 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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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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