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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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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.
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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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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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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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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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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