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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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