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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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You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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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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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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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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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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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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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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