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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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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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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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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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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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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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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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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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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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