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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

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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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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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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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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