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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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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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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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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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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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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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