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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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