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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Sometimes
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Love
Beginnings
Honorable
Break
Half
Doe
Live
Everything

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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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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 there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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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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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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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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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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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
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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 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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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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