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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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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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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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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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