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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.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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