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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
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LA
California
Sadness
Enough
Pick
Much
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World
Places
Behinds
Behind
Leave
Everything

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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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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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