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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: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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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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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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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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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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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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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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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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