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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
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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 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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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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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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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.
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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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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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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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