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Everyone knows everything eventually.

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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California
Eventually
Everyone
Everything

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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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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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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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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 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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I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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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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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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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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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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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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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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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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