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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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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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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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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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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 light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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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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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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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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