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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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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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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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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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