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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Rebellious
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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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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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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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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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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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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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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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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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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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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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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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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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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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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