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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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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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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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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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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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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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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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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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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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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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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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