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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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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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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 used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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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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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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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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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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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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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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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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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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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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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 really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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