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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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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
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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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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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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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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