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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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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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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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