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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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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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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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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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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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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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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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