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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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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 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 don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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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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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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I am a totally public person.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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