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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: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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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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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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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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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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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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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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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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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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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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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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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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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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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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