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Everybody believes in chance.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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LA
California
Everybody
Chance
Believe
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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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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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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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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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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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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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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