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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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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.
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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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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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