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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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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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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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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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I am a totally public person.
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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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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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