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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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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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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.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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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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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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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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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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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 certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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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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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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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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