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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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