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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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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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