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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: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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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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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside 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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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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