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Everybody believes in chance.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Everybody
Chance
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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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 believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. 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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