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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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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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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 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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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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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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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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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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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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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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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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