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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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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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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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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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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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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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