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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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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 say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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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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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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