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

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Writer
LA
California
Beautiful
Home
Bed
Knew
Sleep
Words
Mother

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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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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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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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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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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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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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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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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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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.
Ann Patchett