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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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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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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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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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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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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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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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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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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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