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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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That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
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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. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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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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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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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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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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