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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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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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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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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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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 am a totally public person.
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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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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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That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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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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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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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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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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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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