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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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LA
California
Tame
Rebellious
Bird
Love

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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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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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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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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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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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Fiction is always really a labor.
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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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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
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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 throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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