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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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California
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Fortunate

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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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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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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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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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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 always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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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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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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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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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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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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