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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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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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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. 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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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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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 telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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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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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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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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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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