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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Home
Bed
Knew
Sleep
Words
Mother
Beautiful

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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 was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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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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