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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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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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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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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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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. 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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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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