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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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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 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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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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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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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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