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Everybody believes in chance.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
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LA
California
Believes
Everybody
Chance
Believe

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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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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 know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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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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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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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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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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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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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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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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