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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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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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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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