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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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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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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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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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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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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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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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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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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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