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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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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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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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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 could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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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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Fiction is always really a labor.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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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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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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